[Revised entry by Riccardo Chiaradonna and Eyjólfur Emilsson on November 10, 2026. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Porphyry (234? – 305? C.E.) was a Neoplatonist philosopher, born in Tyre in Phoenicia. He studied with Longinus in Athens and then, from 263 to 268 C.E., with Plotinus in Rome, whose version of Platonism he adopted. Although…
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