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Porphyry - 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


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    The Anatomy of Neoplatonism (Chap. 2 "Porphyrian Semantics") » Read Now

    by A. C. Lloyd. 198 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    This study proposes that Neoplatonism, while not a modern philosophy, is philosophy in the modern sense. Lloyd analyzes the key structures that underlie the dogmas of the Neoplatonic world picture, including the concept of emanation, the return of the soul to the One, the place of mystical...
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    Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian (Chap. 8 "The Divinity of Christ and the Mortality of the Gods: Arnobius' Response to Porphyry's Hecatean Oracle and Commentary," Chap. 9 "The Mortality of the Gods: A Predominantly Literary Retortion of Porphyry's Rejection of Christ's Divinity," and "The Philosophical Approach: Classical Platonism and Porphyry" begins on p. 264) » Read Now

    by Michael Bland Simmons. 385 pgs.

    Arnobius of Sicca, in North Africa, was a Christian convert writing in the time of the Emperor Diocletian in the 3rd sentury AD. His most famous work, Against the Pagans, was written shortly after his conversion (c. AD 302), and is a brilliant defense of his new religion using arguments taken from...
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    Pythagoras Revived: Mathematics and Philosophy in Late Antiquity ("Porphyry" begins on p. 25) » Read Now

    by Dominic J. O'Meara. 252 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    The Pythagorean idea that number is the key to understanding reality inspired philosophers in the fourth and fifth centuries to develop theories in physics and metaphysics using mathematical models. These theories were to become influential in medieval and early modern philosophy, yet until now...
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    Apologetics in the Roman Empire: Pagans, Jews, and Christians ("Against the Christians" begins on p. 235) » Read Now

    by Mark J. Edwards, Martin Goodman, Simon Price, Christopher Rowland. 315 pgs.

    This book is the first to tackle the origins and purpose of literary religious apologetic in the first centuries of the Christian era by discussing, on their own terms, texts composed by pagan and Jewish authors as well as Christians. Previous studies of apologetic have focused primarily on the...

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