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    Porphyry of Tyre (/ˈpɔːrfɪri/; Greek: Πορφύριος, Porphýrios; c. 234 – c. AD 305) was a Neoplatonic philosopher born in Tyre, Roman Phoenicia during Roman...
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  • Porphyrion (fl. 2nd or 3rd century), Latin grammarian Porphyry (philosopher) (234–305), Neoplatonic philosopher Porphyrios of Philippi (fl. early 4th century)...
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    On Abstinence from Eating Animals (category Works by Porphyry (philosopher))
    a 3rd-century treatise by Porphyry on the ethics of vegetarianism. The four-book treatise was composed by the philosopher as an open letter to Castricius...
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    Against the Christians (category Works by Porphyry (philosopher))
    written by Roman-Phoenician Neoplatonic philosopher Porphyry of Tyre, challenging the writings of Christian philosophers and theologians. Due to widespread...
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    3rd-century CE Greek neoplatonist philosopher and logician Porphyry, and revived through the translations of Boethius. Porphyry suggests the tree in his introduction...
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  • On the Cave of the Nymphs in the Odyssey (category Works by Porphyry (philosopher))
    treatise by the Neoplatonist philosopher Porphyry. It is an exegesis of a passage from Homer's Odyssey, which Porphyry interprets as an allegory about...
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  • Isagoge (category Works by Porphyry (philosopher))
    /ˈaɪsəɡoʊdʒiː/) or "Introduction" to Aristotle's "Categories", written by Porphyry in Greek and translated into Latin by Boethius, was the standard textbook...
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  • distinct periods in the history of neoplatonism: the work of his student Porphyry (third to early fourth century); that of Iamblichus (third to fourth century);...
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  • Pagan, and taught for thirty years in Athens, one of his pupils being Porphyry. Longinus did not embrace the Neoplatonism then being developed by Plotinus...
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    Pythagoras (category 6th-century BC Greek philosophers)
    Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers. The two later biographies were written by the Neoplatonist philosophers Porphyry and Iamblichus and were partially...
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