Ancient · c. 234–305
Who influenced Porphyry?
Influences and legacy
Plotinus' editor; his Isagoge on predication was logic's textbook for a millennium.
Porphyry was influenced by Plotinus, and went on to influence Iamblichus and Boethius. That is 3 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Porphyry?
Porphyry, a Neoplatonist born in Tyre, was a student of Plotinus and edited and published the Enneads, the only collection of his teacher's work. He also wrote in Greek on music, Homer and vegetarianism.
His Isagoge, an introduction to logic and philosophy, was the standard logic textbook of the Middle Ages in Latin and Arabic translation. He wrote against Christianity, arguing among other things that the Book of Daniel dates from the Maccabean period, and Constantine banned his Against the Christians.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Porphyry?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Plotinus AD 204–270
Who did Porphyry influence?
2 thinkers on this map draw directly on Porphyry.
- Iamblichus c. 245–325
- Boethius AD 477–524
The line of teachers behind Porphyry
The longest documented line of influence ending at Porphyry runs 7 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Porphyry
Indirect influences
The second generation
- Through Iamblichus: Proclus
- Through Boethius: Christine de Pizan
Porphyry by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 2
- Thinkers upstream
- 16
- Thinkers downstream
- 127
- Wikipedia languages
- 55 — #38 of 54 among ancient philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Questions about Porphyry
- Who influenced Porphyry?
- Plotinus.
- Who did Porphyry influence?
- Iamblichus and Boethius.
- When did Porphyry live?
- c. 234–305. The map files Porphyry under the ancient world.
- How rare is the Porphyry card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Porphyry in 55 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
More ancient philosophers
- Confucius 551–479 BC
- Aristotle 384–322 BC
- Plato c. 428–348 BC
- Socrates c. 470–399 BC
- Pythagoras c. 570–495 BC
- Laozi c. 6th c. BC
- Cicero 106–43 BC
- Thales of Miletus c. 624–546 BC