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See also:MAXIMUS OF See also:TYRE (See also:CASSIUS MAXIMUS TYRius) , a See also:Greek rhetorician and philosopher who flourished in the See also:time of the Antonines and See also:Commodus (2nd See also:century A.D.) . After the manner of the See also:sophists of his See also:age, he travelled extensively, delivering lectures on the way . His writings contain many allusions to the See also:history of See also:Greece, while there is little reference to See also:Rome; hence it is inferred that he lived longer in Greece, perhaps as a See also:professor at See also:Athens . Although nominally a Platonist, he is really an Eclectic and one of the precursors of See also:Neoplatonism: There are still extant by him See also:forty-one essays or discourses (StaX a c) on theological, ethical, and other philosophical commonplaces . With him See also:God is the supreme being, one and indivisible though called by many names, accessible to See also:reason alone; but as animals See also:form the intermediate See also:stage between See also:plants and human beings, so there exist intermediaries between God and See also:man, viz. daemons, who dwell on the confines of See also:heaven and See also:earth . The soul in many ways bears a See also:great resemblance to the divinity; it is partly mortal, partly immortal, and, when freed from the fetters of the See also:body, becomes a daemon . See also:Life is the See also:sleep of the soul, from which it awakes at See also:death . The See also:style of See also:Maximus is See also:superior to that of the See also:ordinary sophistical rhetorician, but scholars differ widely as to the merits of the essays themselves . Maximus of See also:Tyre must be distinguished from the Stoic Maximus, See also:tutor of See also:Marcus Aurelius . See also:Editions by J . See also:Davies, revised with valuable notes by J . See also:Markland (1740); J .
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