• 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...
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    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...
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  • "martyr for philosophy", leading future Neoplatonists such as the historian Damascius (c. 458 – c. 538) to become increasingly fervent in their opposition to...
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  • represent the personified opposites of their parents. The Neoplatonist Damascius attributes to Acusilaus (6th century BC) a cosmogony in which Chaos is...
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  •  871. Suda, μ199 Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 248 (cf. Suda, αι89) Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 80 (cf. Suda, ει40; ει301) Damascius, Life of Isidore...
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  • Messius Phoebus Severus and was believed to hold pagan views. According to Damascius, Severus and Anthemius had a secret plan to restore the Pagan cults. The...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    Plutarch of Athens, Syrianus, Proclus, Marinus, Isidore, and finally Damascius. The Neoplatonic Academy reached its apex under Proclus (died 485). Severianus...
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    Kotharat). The name Eshmun appears to mean 'the Eighth'. The Neo-Platonist Damascius also stated The Asclepius in Beirut is neither a Greek nor an Egyptian...
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  • Tartarus after the Titanomachy. Damascius, in Plato's Phaedo, 1.4–5 (Westerink 1977, pp. 30, 31). At 1.4, Damascius refers to Dionysus being "divided"...
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    elongated stones are cerauniae. A much later reference occurs in the works of Damascius, a 6th century Neoplatonist, according to later quotations of his text...
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  • lived to a considerable age, and her funeral oration was pronounced by Damascius, who was then a young man, in hexameter verses. Smith, William (1867)...
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  • 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...
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    (Herodotus), Arianē (Eratosthenes apud Strabo), áreion (Eudemus of Rhodes apud Damascius), Arianoi (Diodorus Siculus) in Greek and Ari in Armenian; those, in turn...
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  • astronomer, mathematician and engineer Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya - polymath Damascius - Byzantine philosopher Israel ben Moses Najara - poet, Kaballist and...
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    autore del Corpus Areopagiticum, e il dialogo ΠEPI ΠOΛITIKHΣ EΠIΣTHMHΣ" [Damascius, author of the Corpus Dionysiacum, and the dialogue ΠΕΡΙ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗΣ ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΗ]...
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    Iamblichus Julian Plutarch of Athens Syrianus Proclus Ammonius Hermiae Damascius Simplicius more... Second Sophistic Nicetes of Smyrna Dio Chrysostom Favorinus...
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  • next scholarch of the academy was Damascius. Marinus, Life of Proclus, 26 Damascius, Life of Isidore in the Suda, Hegias. Damascius, Life of Isidore....
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  • and mythology. Robarts - University of Toronto. Boston, Little. p. 258. Damascius. Difficulties and Solutions Regarding First Principles. 214. Wallace,...
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    works of Philodemus and Diodorus Siculus. Later, Neoplatonists such as Damascius and Olympiodorus added a number of further elements to the myth, including...
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    Canaanite religion. The name was rendered Aos in Greek sources (e.g. Damascius). He was originally the patron god of the city of Eridu, but later the...
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  • to Damascius, Severus and Anthemius had a secret plan to restore the Pagan cults. During his office, he restored parts of the Colosseum. Damascius, Vita...
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    Iamblichus Julian Plutarch of Athens Syrianus Proclus Ammonius Hermiae Damascius Simplicius more... Second Sophistic Nicetes of Smyrna Dio Chrysostom Favorinus...
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    Many of these details differ from accounts in the classical authors. Damascius says that Apollo "gathers him (Dionysus) together and brings him back...
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    Iamblichus Julian Plutarch of Athens Syrianus Proclus Ammonius Hermiae Damascius Simplicius more... Second Sophistic Nicetes of Smyrna Dio Chrysostom Favorinus...
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  • Areopagite, who was influenced by later Neoplatonists such as Proclus and Damascius, became a critical work on which Greek church fathers based their theology...
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  • identified in a passage from the works of Eudemus of Rhodes preserved by Damascius. Mummu's name could be written in cuneiform as mu-mu, mu-um or mu-um-mu...
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  • 200 – c. 118 BC Peripatetic Cronius fl. 2nd century A.D. Neopythagorean Damascius born c. 458, died after 538 Neoplatonic Damis 1st/2nd century A.D. Neopythagorean...
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