Porphyry, << PAWR fur ree >> (A.D. 232 or 233 – 305?), was one of the leaders in the Neoplatonic school of philosophy. He was a student of Plotinus, the most important Neoplatonist. He published an edition of Plotinus’s Enneads and a Life of Plotinus. Porphyry wrote a great many works, but most have been lost or survive only as fragments. He wrote commentaries on works by Plato and Aristotle, and his commentary on Aristotle’s Categories became a standard medieval textbook on logic. Porphyry was born in Syria and studied in Athens. He became a disciple of Plotinus in Rome in 262 or 263.
