Porphyry
3rd-century Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
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Updated 2026-05-29
Porphyry made Plotinus legible—literally, editing and publishing the Enneads into the only surviving record of his teacher's sprawling Neoplatonic philosophy. A Phoenician who shaped how centuries of thinkers read one of antiquity's most influential minds.
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Porphyry was a Phoenician Neoplatonic philosopher born in Tyre, Roman Phoenicia during Roman rule. He edited and published the Enneads, the only collection of the work of Plotinus, his teacher.
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