Porphyry

3rd-century Greek Neoplatonist philosopher

b. c. 233 · d. c. 301

Porphyry was a Phoenician Neoplatonic philosopher born in Tyre, Roman Phoenicia during Roman rule. He edited and published the Enneads, the only collection of the work of Plotinus, his teacher.

Related people

Plotinus disciple of · traditional
Demetrius disciple of · traditional
Cassius Longinus disciple of · traditional
Iamblichus teacher of · traditional
Boethius influenced · traditional
Iamblichus influenced · traditional

Works

Isagoge
On Abstinence from Eating Animals 3rd century
Against the Christians
On the Cave of the Nymphs in the Odyssey
Life of Plotinus 3rd century
De sole
History of philosophy
Chronicle
Geography

Places

Tyre birth
Rome ministry
Athens ministry

How we know

Recorded as a historical figure.