- head of the
school at
which Damascius had
studied and
taught rhetoric for nine years, was
arrested in 489 AD,
causing Damascius and the
neoplatonic philosopher...
- De
Pietate (On Piety) pp. 80–81 Gomperz], 54 [=
Damascius, De
principiis 123.31–80], 60 [=
Damascius, De
principiis 123.8–30], 65 [= John Malalas, Chronographia...
- "martyr for philosophy",
leading ****ure
Neoplatonists such as the
historian Damascius (c. 458 – c. 538) to
become increasingly fervent in
their opposition to...
- from an
epitome of a work by
Damascius conserved in the
Byzantine Suda encyclopaedia. He was,
according to his
pupil Damascius, born a Samaritan. Whether...
- by
Damascius, who was
another disciple of
Isidore and the last head of the
neoplatonic school in Athens. It was at Theodora’s
request that
Damascius wrote...
-
Canaanite religion. The name was
rendered Aos
within Gr****
sources (e.g.
Damascius). He was
originally the
patron god of the city of Eridu, but
later the...
-
Neoplatonist Damascius adds to this,
stating that from Air and
Night is born Tartarus, who in turn
produces two
Titans (by Night?).
Damascius also writes...
-
Iamblichus Julian Plutarch of
Athens Syri****
Proclus Ammonius Hermiae Damascius Simplicius more...
Second Sophistic Nicetes of
Smyrna Dio
Chrysostom Favorinus...
- neoplatonism,
writers such as Plutarch, Porphyry, Proclus, Olympiodorus, and
Damascius wrote explicitly about the
symbolic interpretation of
traditional and...
-
represent the
personified opposites of
their parents. The
Neoplatonist Damascius attributes to
Acusilaus (6th
century BC) a
cosmogony in
which Chaos is...
