Plotinus

Plotinus in wikipedia

Plotinus (Greek: Πλωτῖνος) (ca. AD 204/5–270) was a major philosopher of the ancient world who is widely considered the founder of Neoplatonism (along with his teacher Ammonius Saccas). Neoplatonism was an influential philosophy in Late Antiquity. Much of our biographical information about Plotinus comes from Porphyry's preface to his edition of Pl...

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Plotīnus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Πλωτῖνος). A Greek philosopher, born A.D. 205 at Lycopolis, in Egypt. In the twentyeighth year of his life he applied himself to philosophy, and attended the lectures of the most celebrated men of that time in Alexandria. But none of these was able to satisfy him, until in Ammonius Saccas, the founder of Neo-Platonism, he discovered the teacher wh...

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