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translator. Porphyry, On the Life of Plotinus Porphyry, Comments on the Book of Daniel. Additional texts, edited by Roger Pearse Works by Porphyry of Tyre at

list of students of Plotinus. The philosopher Plotinus was the founder of a tradition later known as Neoplatonism. Porphyry, the most important of Plotinus's

the Renaissance. Much of the biographical information about Plotinus comes from Porphyry's preface to his edition of Plotinus' most notable literary

the collection of writings of the philosopher Plotinus, edited and compiled by his student Porphyry (c. AD 270). Plotinus was a student of Ammonius Saccas

and Plotinus is to have been a known associate of the Christian Origen, none of Plotinus' works mention Christ or Christianity—whereas Plotinus specifically

Plotinus in the 3rd century AD. Three distinct phases in classical neoplatonism after Plotinus can be distinguished: the work of his student Porphyry;

important aspect of this interpretation of Plato's metaphysics is the continuity between his teaching and the Neoplatonic interpretation of Plotinus. All the

entirety of the work is extant except for the ending of the fourth book. Porphyry was born c. 234 in Tyre, Roman Phoenicia. He studied under Plotinus and promulgated

encountered through the Latin translations of Marius Victorinus of the works of Porphyry and/or Plotinus. Platonism was considered authoritative in the

According to Porphyry, in 232, at the age of 28, Plotinus went to Alexandria to study philosophy: In his twenty-eighth year he [Plotinus] felt the impulse