- Porphyry by Owen Fernandez
... 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.
- Iamblichus by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Born circa A.D. 250 in Chalcis, Syria; died circa 330. Greek philosopher and founder of the Syrian school of Neo-platonism; follower of Porphyry.Iamblichus continued the Neoplatonist tendency toward further differentiation of the basic concepts of Plotinus (“the One,” “the Intelligence,” or nous, and “the Soul”) and combined the latter’s teachings with Eastern ...
- Iamblichus by Frank Adams
... work on the philosophy of Pythagoras. His work On the Egyptian Mysteries. Survives, but his commentaries on Plato and Aristotle have disappeared.BibliographySee J. Finamore, Iamblichus and the Theory of the Vehicle of the Soul. (1985); S. Gersh, Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism: The Latin Tradition. (2 vol., 1986).
- Pythagoras by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... -Neuköln, 1960. Chapter 14. Iamblichus. De vita Pythagorica. Edited by A. Nauck. St. Petersburg, 1884. Diogenes Laertius. Lives of Eminent Philosophers, vol. 2, London-Cambridge (Mass.), 1958. Book 8, sections 1–50.REFERENCEKerényi, K. Pythagoras und Orpheus, 3rd ed. Zürich, 1950.S. S. A VERINTSEV
- Ficino, Marsilio by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... (published 1484), Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus, Porphyry, and Psellus, as well as some of the Areopagite’s works and treatises from the hermetic literature. In his commentaries on these works and in other works, such as Platonic Theology—On the Immortality of the Souls. (1469–74, published 1482; latest edition, vols. 1–2, 1965) and On the Christian Religion...