DAMASCIUS  , the last of the Neoplatonists, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• DAMASCUS

Damascus about A.D . 480 . In his See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early youth he went to See also:

• ALEXANDRIA
• ALEXANDRIA (Arab. Iskenderia)

Alexandria, where he spent twelve years partly as a See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of See also:

• THEON
• THEON, AELIUS

Theon, a rhetorician, and partly as a See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• RHETORIC (Gr. psroperctj TEXvq, the art of the orator)

rhetoric . He then turned to See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy and See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science, and studied under Hermeias and his sons, Ammonius and See also:

• HELIODORUS

Heliodorus . Later on in See also:

• LIFE

life he migrated to See also:

• ATHENS
• ATHENS ['AN vat, Athenae, modem colloquial Greek `Ath va]

Athens and continued his studies under See also:

• MARINUS

Marinus, the mathematician, See also:

• ZENODOTUS

Zenodotus, and Isidore, the dialectician . He became a See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close friend of Isidore, succeeded him as See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of the school in Athens, and wrote his See also:

• BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

biography, See also:

• PART

part of which is preserved in the Bibliotheca of See also:

• PHOTIUS
• PHOTIUS (c. 82o-891)

Photius (see appendix to the See also:

• DIDOT

Didot edition of See also:

• DIOGENES

Diogenes Laertius) . In 529 Justinian closed the school, and Damascius with six of his colleagues sought an See also:

• ASYLUM (from Gr. b.-, privative, arid earl, right'of seizure)
• ASYLUM, RIGHT OF (Fr. droit d'asile; Ger. Asylrecht)

asylum, probably in 532, at the See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court of See also:

• CHOSROES

Chosroes 1(., See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of See also:

• PERSIA

Persia . They found the conditions intolerable, and in 533, in a treaty between Justinian and Chosroes, it was provided that they should be allowed to return . It is believed that Damascius settled in Alexandria and there devoted himself to the See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing of his See also:

• WORKS

works . The date of his See also:

• DEATH

death is not known . His See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• TREATISE

treatise is entitled Difficulties and Solutions of First Principles ('Aaopiac Kai xbvets aepi rwv apc'aTwv apxCev) . It examines into the nature and attributes of See also:

• GOD

God and the human soul .

This examination is, in two respects, in striking contrast to that of certain other Neoplatonist writers . It is conspicuously See also:

• FREE

free from that See also:

• ORIENTAL

Oriental See also:

• MYSTICISM (from Or. µuety, to shut the eyes; µuorrts, one initiated into the mysteries)

mysticism which stultifies so much of the later See also:

• PAGAN
• PAGAN (Lat. paganus, of or belonging to a pagus, a canton, county district, village, commune)

pagan philosophy of See also:

• EUROPE

Europe . Secondly, it contains no polemic against See also:

• CHRISTIANITY

Christianity, to the doctrines of which, in fact, there is no allusion . Hence the See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge of impiety which Photius brings against him . His See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main result is that God is See also:

• INFINITE (from Lat. in, not, finis, end or limit; cf. findere, to deave)

infinite, and as such, incomprehensible; that his attributes of goodness, knowledge and See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power are credited to him only by inference from their effects; that this inference is logically valid and sufficient for human thought . He insists throughout on the unity and the indivisibility of God, whereas See also:

• PLOTINUS (A.D. 204-270)

Plotinus and See also:

• PORPHYRY (IlopcPisptos) (A.D. 233-c. 304)

Porphyry had admitted not only a Trinity, but even an Ennead (nine-See also:

• FOLD

fold See also:

• PERSONALITY (from Lat. persona, originally an actor's mask, from personare,1 to sound through)

personality) . Interesting as Damascius is in himself, heis stillmoreinteresting as the last in the See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long See also:

• SUCCESSION (Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)

succession of See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek philosophers .