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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Iamblichus lived from around 245 to 325, a Syrian Arab working in the wake of Plotinus. He took Neoplatonism in a new direction, one that would shape the tradition for centuries: where earlier Neoplatonists prized contemplation, he argued that theurgy—ritual practice, invocation of the divine—was essential to the philosophical life. He wrote a biography of Pythagoras, cementing the mystic mathematician's legend for later ages. His Protrepticus, a work encouraging the study of philosophy, preserved about ten pages from an otherwise lost sophist now called the Anonymus Iamblichi. That accident of preservation makes the text valuable to scholars of the sophistic movement. He left Neoplatonism more religious, more ritualized, and more concerned with the mechanics of ascent to the divine.