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Jun 29, 2018 · Platonist (Neoplatonist to us) philosopher Iamblichus of Chalcis (which are preserved in the early fifth-century Ioannes Stobaeus’ Anthologium [ = Flor.]) to former students and other contemporaries, some of whom appear to have been imperial officeholders (see Appendix); the Epistle to Himerius of Sopater the Younger (which is partially preserved in Stobaeus, 4.5.51–60, in sequential extracts; this Sopater is the homonymous son of the philosopher who had been Iamblichus’ student) to ...
Jun 11, 2018 · According to Iamblichus, Pythagoras (c. 580-c. 500 b.c.) himself had discovered "amicable" numbers, pairs in which each is the sum of the other's proper divisors. By expanding on the nonscientific aspects of Pythagorean mathematics—aspects that indeed did go back, in many respects, to ideas of Pythagoras himself—Iamblichus helped perpetuate interest in numerology, magic, and astrology.
Mar 16, 2011 · Continuing a movement that was inaugurated by Iamblichus (4 th c.) and the charismatic figure of emperor Julian, and following the teaching of Syrianus, Proclus was eager to demonstrate the harmony of the ancient religious revelations (the mythologies of Homer and Hesiod, the Orphic theogonies and the Chaldaean Oracles) and to integrate them in the philosophical tradition of Pythagoras and Plato.
Jun 3, 2024 · Iamblichus of Chalcis or Iamblichus Chalcidensis (Ἰάμβλιχος; c. 245 – c. 325) was a Greek Neoplatonic philosopher from Syria who heavily influenced later Neoplatonism, and much of western pagan philosophy. He is most famous for his compendium on Pythagorean philosophy.
Iamblichus ( Ancient Greek: Ἰάμβλιχος; fl. c. 165–180 AD) was an ancient Syrian Greek novelist. He was the author of the Babyloniaca ( Βαβυλωνιακά, Babylōniaká, 'Babylonian Stories' [1] ), a romance novel in Greek. If not the earliest, it was at least one of the first productions of this kind in Greek literature.
The late ancient philosopher Iamblichus was, alongside Plotinus and Porphyry, a founder of Neoplatonism. He established a new curriculum for the teaching of philosophy and formulated many distinctions that pervaded later Neoplatonic metaphysics. He began to mathematize all fields of philosophical concern.
the Decad of Iamblichus’ teacher Anatolius, is a work of some signi cance for the history of ancient numerology and, in such capacity, also deserves more attention.4 The fragments of Iamblichus’ commentaries to Plato’s dialogues were independently collected and analyzed by Dalsgaard Larsen (1972) and John
