Iamblichus
Sign in to saveIamblichus ( ; ; ; ) was a Syrian Arab Neoplatonist philosopher who determined a direction later taken by Neoplatonism. Iamblichus was also the biographer of the Greek mystic, philosopher, and mathematician Pythagoras. In addition to his philosophical contributions, his is important for the study of the sophists because it preserved about ten pages of an otherwise unknown sophist known as the Anonymus Iamblichi.
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Iamblichus was a Syrian Arab Neoplatonist philosopher who shaped the future direction of Neoplatonism and wrote a biography of the ancient Greek mathematician and mystic Pythagoras. His works are also valuable to scholars because they preserve rare surviving passages from an otherwise unknown sophist called the Anonymus Iamblichi.
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- Born
- approximately 250
- Died
- approximately 330
- Works
- 38
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- Pýthagorás ze Samu
- Iamblichus' life of Pythagoras, or Pythagoric life
- Über die Geheimlehren
- De mysteriis Aegyptiorum
- Jamblichus De mysteriis Ægyptiorum, Chaldæorum, Assyriorum
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- Iamblichus Chalcidensis In Platonis Dialogorum Fragmenta
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Iamblichus ( ; ; ; ) was a Syrian Arab Neoplatonist philosopher who determined a direction later taken by Neoplatonism. Iamblichus was also the biographer of the Greek mystic, philosopher, and mathematician Pythagoras. In addition to his philosophical contributions, his is important for the study of the sophists because it preserved about ten pages of an otherwise unknown sophist known as the Anonymus Iamblichi.
== Life == According to the and Iamblichus' biographer, Eunapius, Iamblichus was born in Chalcis (later called Qinnašrīn) in Coele, now in northwest Syria. Iamblichus was descended from the Emesene dynasty. He initially studied under Anatolius of Laodicea and later studied under Porphyry, a pupil of Plotinus (the founder of Neoplatonism). Iamblichus disagreed with Porphyry about theurgy, reportedly responding to Porphyry's criticism of the practice in On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians.