PORPHYRY, Greek Scholar

pôrˈfĭrē, c.232–c.304, Greek scholar and Neoplatonic philosopher. He studied rhetoric under Cassius Longinus and philosophy under Plotinus. He later lectured in Rome on the philosophy of Plotinus and was the teacher of the Neoplatonist Iamblichus. He wrote lives of Pythagoras and of Plotinus and edited the Enneads of Plotinus. He wrote extensively against Christianity and on rhetorical and literary themes. His most influential work is the Isagoge, an introduction to the logic of Aristotle, which became a standard medieval text.

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Poetic Drama: An Anthology of Plays in Verse from the Ancient Greek to the Modern American
Includes: Agamemnon; Oedipus Coloneus; Ion; The Acharnians; The Chalk Circle; Nakamitsu; Adam; Abraham, Melchisedec, and Isaac; The Second Shepherds' Play; Everyman; The Wandering Scholar from Paradise; Tamburlaine the Great, Part I; Measure for Measure; Volpone or The Fox; A New Way to Pay Old Debts; The White Devil; The Sheep Well; Cinna; Athaliah; The Misanthrope; Torquato Tasso; The Death of Wallenstein; The Cenci; The White Saviour; The Last Night of Don Juan; The King's Threshold; Gruach; The Dog beneath the Skin; The Death of Eve; Aria da Capo; Hole in the Wall; The Fall of the City; Shenandoah
Book by Alfred Kreymborg; Modern Age Books, 1941
Subjects: Drama--Collections
...Excellent varlet! Volt . Now, my faithful Mosca, I find thy constancy. Mos . Sir! Volt . Sincere. Mos . Writing. A table Of porphyry--I marle youll be thus troublesome. Volt . Nay, leave off now, they are gone. Mos . Why, who are you? What! who did...
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Greek Mythography in the Roman World
Book by Alan Cameron; Oxford University Press, 2004
Subjects: Latin Literature--Greek Influences, Latin Literature--History And Criticism, Mythology, Greek, In Literature, Mythology, Greek--Historiography, Rome--Civilization--Greek Influences
...effective disappearance of Greek in the late antique West...something of a reputation as a Greek scholar, a Neoplatonist capable of reading Plotinus and Porphyry in the original.46 There...question that he knew Greek, and his commentary contains...
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An Abridged History of Greek Literature
Book by Alfred Croiset, Maurice Croiset, George F. Heffelbower; Macmillan Company, 1904
Subjects: Greek Literature--History And Criticism
...representing adequately the grandeur of Hellenic genius. Porphyry, though profoundly differing from him, is inseparable...elaboration he devoted himself incessantly; but Porphyry was more of a scholar and many-sided writer. He was born at Tyre in...
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Education in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Book by Yun Lee Too; Brill, 2001
Subjects: Classical Education--History, Education, Ancient, Education, Greek, Education--Rome
...Certainly, the anecdotes Porphyry assembles portray a community...to establish a community of scholars under the same roof. This...Platonopolis ( Vit. Plot. 12). Porphyry devotes more attention and...with his own portrait of a scholar whose principal virtue was...Plotinus classes. One can take Porphyry at his word that he himself...
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The Greek Genius and Its Influence: Select Essays and Extracts
Book by Lane Cooper; Yale University Press, 1917
Subjects: Greece--Civilization, Greece--Intellectual life, Greek literature--History and criticism, National characteristics, Greek (Ancient)
only scholar in antiquity as Niebuhr and M. Letronne have well shown who was critical...in all matters concerning demons, familiar spirits, and white magic! Porphyry, an excellent critic in all other respects, in the field of metempsychosis...
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Homer in the French Renaissance*
Journal article by Philip Ford; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2006
Subjects: Homer (Greek poet)--Criticism and interpretation, Homer (Greek poet)--Works, Renaissance--Analysis
...the works of fifteen other Greek poets. For the first time...a critical apparatus. The scholar and printer points out that...to Paris, where he studied Greek with Nicolas Berault. The...commentary on the conduct of the Greek heroes Agamemnon, Achilles...Apollos punishment of the Greeks impiety in not returning the...whole generation of Homeric scholars such as Joachim Camerarius...
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Donatello's Gattamelata and Its Humanist Audience *
Journal article by Mary Bergstein; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 55, 2002
Subjects: Classical antiquities, Donatello, Donato de'Bardi detto--Criticism and interpretation, Gattamelata (Sculpture)--Criticism and interpretation, Gattamelata (Sculpture)--History, Gattamelata (Sculpture)--Social aspects, Humanism--Criticism and interpretation, Humanism--Social aspects, Renaissance sculpture--Criticism and interpretation, Renaissance sculpture--History, Renaissance sculpture--Social aspects, Sculptors--Criticism and interpretation, Sculpture, Renaissance--Criticism and interpretation, Sculpture, Renaissance--History, Sculpture, Renaissance--Social aspects
...antiquarian culture. Following early Greek and Roman antiquarian interests...eventually became distinguished as scholars of Greek, which they studied in t he second...death in 1462.76 Until 1444 the Greek scholar John Argyropoulos was at the University...
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Florence, 1492: The Reappearance of Plotinus
Journal article by Henri D. Saffrey; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 49, 1996
Subjects: Manuscripts--Translations and translating, Philosophers--Works, Plotinus--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...heritage. The last of the Greek philosophers, Georgios...had not had a greater scholar than Plethon.(10...had it copied by the Greek scholar Johannes Scutariotes...negotiated among the Greeks and Latins in Florence...frequently heard a Greek philosopher by the name...of the assistance of Porphyry or Eustochius or Proclus...
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Interventions: toward a New Model of Renaissance Anachronism/response: Historia and Anachronism in Renaissance Art/response: Nihil Sub Sole Novum/response: Time out of Joint/the Authors Reply
Journal article by Alexander Nagel, Christopher S. Wood, Charles Dempsey, Michael Cole, Claire Farago; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 87, 2005
Subjects: Art criticism, Art history, Painting, Theory, Visual artists
...German, French, and Italian scholars.5 I have myself tried to...equal the achievements of the Greeks and Romans (which were...So far as Renaissance scholars are concerned, however...explains the tendency among scholars, including Brown, to hypothesize...85-90, who is the only scholar I know to have examined the...
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Pythagoras in the Renaissance: The Case of Marsilio Ficino
Journal article by Christopher S. Celenza; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 52, 1999
Subjects: Ficino, Marsilio--Philosophy, Philosophy, Ancient--Influence
...the translation from Greek to Latin of Diogenes...have been noticed by scholars, although the only piece...liaison between Hebrew and Greek" (in the words of Warden...scholarship: he was the first scholar, Greek or Latin, to treat the...
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Fish, Flesh and Foul
Magazine article by Steven G. Kellman; American Scholar, Vol. 69, Autumn 2000
Subjects: Diet--Psychological aspects, Vegetarianism--Social aspects, Vegetarians--Social aspects
...nectar were sustenance enough for the Greek gods, and in the Homeric "Hymn to Hermes...including Empedocles, Plotinus, Plutarch, Porphyry, Seneca, and Theophrastus, fixed their...flesh, or fowl. Vegephobia blights Greek comedies of the third and fourth centuries...
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Happy Trails to All
Magazine article by James Mcconkey; American Scholar, Vol. 70, Autumn 2001
Subjects: College faculty--Personal narratives, College teachers--Personal narratives, Memory--Personal narratives, Trails--Appreciation
...the arches had thickened: over the centuries the marble and porphyry of those pillars had been so compressed by the weight above...tilted. Santa Sophia (Hagia Sophia, or Holy Wisdom, in Greek) had been built by the emperor Justinian to replace a previous...
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Marsilio Ficino Renaissance Man
Magazine article by Valery Rees; History Today, Vol. 49, July 1999
Subjects: Ficino, Marsilio--Influence, Italy--15th century, Philosophers--Influence, Scholars--Influence
...own trading agents as well as by Greek scholars fleeing the fall of Constantinople...participation in those meetings of like-minded scholars, poets and statesmen that formed the...leaders and princes, to churchmen and scholars, both in Italy and elsewhere: his contacts...
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In Quest of the Father of Mission Studies
Magazine article by Andrew F. Walls; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 23, July 1999
Subjects: Changes, Christianity, Evangelism, History, Theology
...shall return. Thoroughly Greek, Thoroughly Christian...Christian philosopher Porphyry, who, in a work known...have known Origen.4 Porphyry notes that Origen, like...influential Alexandrian scholar of his time. But while...reputation behind him, Porphyry complains that, as far...
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The Death of Roger II of Sicily: February 26th, 1154
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 54, February 2004
Subjects: Roger II, King of Sicily, Sicily--History
...He was brought up by Greek and Muslim tutors and...populated by Arabs and Greeks, and he emerged with...Rome, he flirted with Greek Orthodoxy. He lived...glittering court among scholars from both the West and...or Latin, Arabic or Greek, and he put an Arab scholar and friend in charge...cathedral in a handsome porphyry tomb, dressed in Byzantine...
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Porphyry , Greek Scholar
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PORPHYRY , Greek scholar por fire, c.232 c.304, Greek scholar and Neoplatonic philosopher. He studied rhetoric under Cassius Longinus and philosophy under Plotinus . He later lectured in Rome on the philosophy of Plotinus and was the teacher...


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