I will direct my talk to the ideas expressed in the working hypothesis adopted by the “Between Athens & Alexandria” project, that the Neoplatonic Schools of Athens and Alexandria are essentially one School adapting itself to the different environments of the two cities, but by focussing less on the possible reception of Porphyry in Athens and Alexandria than on Porphyry himself, in terms of the form and content of his philosophical project and on how this would have presented itself objectively to his successors. To regard Porphyry and Iamblichus as polar opposites and as putative champions respectively of rational and religious Platonism and thus also of an Alexandrian and Athenian version of Neoplatonism is too coarse a distinction, and one which distorts the complex spectrum of Neo-platonic understanding of the relationship of philosophy to religion.