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	damascius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		Damascius, the last of the Neoplatonists, was born in Damascus about AD In his early youth he went to Alexandria, where he spent twelve years partly as a pupil of Theon, a rhetorician, and partly as a professor of rhetoric.
		In 529 Justinian closed the school, and Damascius with six of his colleagues sought an asylum, probably in 532, at the court of Khosrau I of Persia.
		Interesting as Damascius is in himself, he is still more interesting as the last in the long succession of Greek philosophers.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /damascius.html (451 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 932 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		From Alexandria Damascius went to Athens, where Neo-Platonism existed in its setting glory under Marinus and Zenodotus, the successors of the celebrated Proclus.
		At a later time (533), however, Damascius appears to have returned to the West, sinre Chosroes had stipulated in a treaty of peace that the religion and philosophy of the heathen votaries of the Platonic philosophy should be tolerated by the Byzantine emperor.
		In this treatise Damascius inquires, as the title intimates, respecting the first principle of all things, which he finds to be an unfathomable and unspeakable divine depth, being all in one, but undivided.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0941.html (950 words)

	Animus: James Doull, Neoplatonism and the Origin of the Cartesian Subject (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		The history is near to completion when Damascius, extending his commentary to the negative hypotheses, discovers a unified relation of the sensible world to the intelligible, as already when the second hypothesis in his comment is found hardly other than the incomprehensible division of the One itself.
		Damascius' criticism of Proclus on the relation of the One to the Intelligible and to finite knowledge, Ruelle I, 111-113 (Combès III, 113-122).
		For Damascius, as for all Neoplatonists, the One is the first moving interest of humans, the good through which they are unified; of all else outside this unified relation there is only a human or hypothetical knowledge.
	www.swgc.mun.ca /animus/1999vol4/doull4.htm (15621 words)

	DAMASCIUS - LoveToKnow Article on DAMASCIUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		In 529 Justinian closed the school, and Damascius with six of his colleagues sought an asylum, probably in 532, at the court of Chosroes E., king of 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.
		Interesting as Damascius is in himself,heis stilimoreinteresting as the last in the long succession of Greek philosophers.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DA/DAMASCIUS.htm (426 words)

	Damascius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He became a close friend of Isidore, succeeded him as head of the school in Athens, and wrote his biography, part of which is preserved in the Bibliotheca of Photius; see the appendix to the Didot edition of Diogenes Laertius.
		They found the conditions intolerable, and when the following year Justinian and Khosrau concluded a peace treaty, it was provided that the philosophers should be allowed to return.
		It is believed that Damascius returned to Alexandria and there devoted himself to the writing of his works.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Damascius (423 words)

	Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity revised electronic edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		Damascius writes of him in unfavourable terms, as having put himself forward as a rival to Damascius' hero, Isidore; his claim was based on his connection by marriage with the great Asclepiodotus, and his worldly prosperity - ἐκοσμεῖτο πᾶσι τοῖς τοῦ βίου λαμπροῖς - rather than on true philosophy (Epit.
		It was from Aphrodisias that Damascius himself and Dorus, another philosopher, visited Hierapolis; when they did so, Asclepiodotus referred to a visit that he himself had made as a younger man, νεώτερος, implying that he had then been at Aphrodisias for some time (Epit.
		His marriage to Damiane, however, initially proved childless, and after some time he decided to go with her to Egypt to seek a remedy at the shrine of Isis, which was maintained in a private house (the former temple having been destroyed by the Christians) at Menouthis, outside Alexandria.
	www.kcl.ac.uk /humanities/cch/eala/final/content/narrative/sec-V.html (9008 words)

	OLYMPIODORUS - LoveToKnow Article on OLYMPIODORUS
		He was, therefore, a younger contemporary of Damascius, and seems to have carried on the Platonic tradition after the closing of the Athenian School in 529, at a time when the old pagan philosophy was at its last ebb.
		His philosophy is in close conformity with that of Damascius, and, apart from great lucidity of expression, shows no striking features.
		He is, however, important as a critic and a commentator, and preserved much that was valuable in the writings of lamblichus, Damascius and Syrianus.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /O/OL/OLYMPIODORUS.htm (297 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.01.23
		Damascius, in any case, had studied rhetoric in his native Damascus before coming to Alexandria to continue his education in the early 480's, aged perhaps twenty.
		When it was over, Damascius had abandoned rhetoric for philosophy (a career change that had, since the second century, become a topos) and is assumed himself to have taken on the leadership of the Athenian school during the first or at the latest the second decade of the sixth century.
		Problems of this sort in the interpretation of Damascius are legion -- in this last instance, and from time to time elsewhere, one wishes A. had been a little more generous in her annotation.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2000/2000-01-23.html (2602 words)

	Damascius
		Damascius, the last of the Neoplatonists, was born in Damascus about AD 480.
		In 529 Justinian closed the school, and Damascius with six of his colleagues sought an asylum, probably in 532, at the court of Chosroes I, King of Persia.
		Interesting as Damascius is in himself,he is still more interesting as the last in the long succession of Greek philosophers.
	www.nndb.com /people/959/000096671 (373 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.09.13
		Since the distinction between perceived and actual lack underlies the position of Damascius, as van Riel himself acknowledges, it is at least tendentious for him to ignore the distinction in the case of Plotinus and Proclus.
		Damascius ends with a hierarchy of seven kinds of pleasure; the significant point about this is that even the highest activities of the soul do involve pleasure.
		He wants to characterize Damascius' views on the 'true pleasure' on intellectual activity as occurring without any previous lack, but it is clear from what Damascius himself says (and as quoted often enough by van Riel himself) that this means 'without any perceived previous lack'.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2000/2000-09-13.html (1433 words)

	APOLLO OF A THOUSAND YEARS
		Damascius abruptly awoke from his dream — awoke from the same dream he had since he was a child: always the same little man standing beside a tree, and always pointing downward.
		Porphyria and Damascius supported her in her ecstasy as they escorted her down the streets and passed the bazaars that were once the via dolorosa of Hypatia’s passion.
		Damascius and the women, along with their former colleagues, arrived in Ctesiphon in the summer of 532 AD, intending to speak at the meetings.
	www.esotericism.co.uk /APOLLO.htm (2088 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		Damascius' original work seems to have used Isidore's life as a framework for digressions describing several members of the pagan philosophical circles of the late fifth century.
		Damascius writes of him in unfavourable terms, as having put himself forward as a rival to Damascius' hero, Isidore; his claim was based on his connection by marriage with the great Asclepiodotus, and his worldly prosperity — ἐκοσμεῖτο πᾶσι τοῖς τοῦ βίου λαμπροῖς — rather than on true philosophy (Epit.
		The date of their stay can be deduced from the fact that in 491, when Peter the Iberian died, Zacharias was in his second year as a law student in Beirut, Kugener, ROC 5 (1900), 205-6; for the date of Peter's death, P. Devos, AB 86 (1968), 347-50.
	insaph.kcl.ac.uk /ala2004/print/p1_3_05.html (12326 words)

	Philosophisches Institut der Ruhr-Universität Bochum
		Damascius attempts to situate movement in the metaphysical realm and avoid a static metaphysical model by propounding a connection between sensible beings and their productive archetype through what he conceives as metaphysical amplification.
		His explication of the relation between the physical and the metaphysical indicates that he is not concerned with just a general description, but instead intends to specify the forms of their mutual communication.
		Because Damascius sets logic in analytic relation to ontology and defines the conditions of this coordination, it gains no independent status, even as its propriety becomes explicit, for he shows its principal determination by ontology.
	www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de /philosophy/journals/toc1.htm (1431 words)

	The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
		Here the narrative is defective, and is continued by Damascius in his /Doubts and Solutions of the First Principles/, in which he states that, after Anos (Anu), come Illinos (Ellila or Bel, "the lord" /par excellence/) and Aos (Aa, Ae, or Êa), the god of Eridu.
		Among the children of Tauthé (Tiawath) enumerated by Damascius is one named Moumis, who was evidently referred to in the document at that philosopher's disposal.
		Damascius, in his valuable account of the belief of the Babylonians concerning the Creation, states that, like the other barbarians, they reject the doctrine of the one
	www.sacred-texts.com /ane/rbaa.htm (16050 words)

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		The energy and ardour of Damascius were such that when Isidorus and Zenodotus had successively retired from the scholarchship or headship of the school Damascius was chosen as their successor.
		He was thus the last outward link of the "golden chain" of the Platonic succession before the Dark Ages, for in 529 AD the Emperor Justinian promulgated an edict ordering the schools of philosophy to be closed, while a few years later their property was confiscated.
		But Damascius in this work is attempting to express in human language the ineffable, and time after time the argument outstrips as it were the bounds of verbal expression and loses itself in that which is beyond words.
	www.btinternet.com /~southcote/SoW37.htm (4535 words)

	Ammonius
		Damascius, who went on to head the school at Athens, heard Ammonius lecture, but attached himself rather to the mentorship of Isidore, who briefly succeeded Proclus' successor Marinus in the Athenian chair.
		Damascius, whose History is the source of most details about Ammonius' life, greatly admired Aedesia for her piety and charity, and while still a young student of rhetoric he gave her eulogy at Horapollo's school.
		It was probably during this crisis that Ammonius is represented by Damascius as making an agreement or deal: “Ammonius, who was wickedly greedy and saw everything in terms of what profit he could make, concluded an agreement with the overseer of the dominant doctrine” (Damascius 118B Athanassiadi, with her Introduction, 30-1 and n.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/ammonius (5046 words)

	20th WCP: The Context and Contents of Priscianus of Lydia's Solutionum ad Chosroem
		This connection is based partially on the fact that one of the seven philosophers who went to the Sasanian court was Damascius the Syrian who was head of the Academy in Athens during at least part of the reign of Emperor Justinian.
		Damascius had ambitious plans for reinvigorating the Academy in Athens, plans which he was well on his way to implementing by 529.
		On the face of it, the connections between Justinian's decision to limit the public role played by anyone other than orthodox Christians, some decree aimed specifically at a situation in Athens, and the appearance of a group of Hellenic philosophers at the Sasanian court at about the same time are neither implausible nor farfetched.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Medi/MediErha.htm (2987 words)

	'Damascius on Dynamis' - abstract (HTM) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		I must admit, like Damascius, to having spent rather too long on this question, but my excuse is that, if one wishes to penetrate to a proper understanding of the peculiar quality of Damascius’ philosophizing, one must be prepared to make a close study of his argumentation.
		Damascius’ distinctive contribution is to put this concept, like every other, to the question, not with a view to discrediting or exploding it, but just to tease out hidden inconsistencies or inadequacies in the formulations or concepts of his predecessors.
		My interest will be, again, to extract primarily the philosopher Damascius for what he has to say about dynamis as a philosophical concept and on his own right.
	cosmin-andron.com /professional/academic/papers/damascius20-10-03.htm (618 words)

	Eshmun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For to Sadyk were born children who are interpreted as Dioscuri and Cabeiri; and in addition to these was born an eighth son, Esmunus, who is interpreted as Asclepius.
		Photius (Bibliotheca Codex 242) summarizes Damascius as saying further that Asclepius of Beirut was a youth who was fond of hunting.
		He was seen by the goddess Astronoë (thought by many scholars to be a version of ‘Ashtart) who so harassed him with amorous pusuit that in desperation he castrated himself and died.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eshmun (577 words)

	Damascius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		Damascius was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher and the last in the succession of scholars at Plato's Academy in Athens.
		He served as head of the Academy until 529, when it and other "pagan schools" were closed by Emperor Justinian.
		By emphasizing the ultimate unknowableness of the divine reality, which he felt he could not acknowledge by its customary name "the One," Damascius anticipated the Christian mystics of the middle ages.
	www.alcott.net /alcott/home/champions/Damascius.html (100 words)

	PhD Summary, University of London - Cosmin I. Andron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		For critics his philosophy is nothing more than a mind-blockage after the impressive metaphysical construct achieved by Proclus; for the enthusiasts, he brings the Neoplatonic metaphysics to its speculative apex, ending, however, again, in a mental cramp.
		Nevertheless, to make it easier for the historian of philosophy, a sort of agreement was reached that can be summed up like this: Damascius is a quite innovative philosopher who draws on Proclus and in the matter of the first principle he prefers the approach proposed by Iamblichus to the one of Proclus and Syrianus.
		What I hope will be revealed at the end of this research is that Damascius is the exponent of such descriptive metaphysics - as opposed to Proclus (or Plotinus, Iamblichus et alii) who represent speculative metaphysics- and what are the consequences that occur from such a conclusion.
	www.cosmin-andron.com /professional/academic/research/phd.htm (483 words)

	DAMASCIUS - Online Information article about DAMASCIUS
		DAMASCIUS, the last of the Neoplatonists, was See also:
		It is believed that Damascius settled in Alexandria and there devoted himself to the See also:
		Interesting as Damascius is in himself, heis stillmoreinteresting as the last in the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /DAH_DEM/DAMASCIUS.html (568 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		THe verb "fall" was in the air in the east concerning Rome, although not necessarily with precise reference to events of 476.
		Damascius, for one, claimed that it was in use in the 460s, and he was writing in the first or second decade of the sixth century.
		That does not solve the specific issue of 476, btu it does solve the issue of the use of the verb "fall" and the verbal noun "fall" for Rome.
	omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu /mailing_lists/LT-ANTIQ/Older/1996/ltantiq.960312.09 (207 words)

	Simplicius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		Damascius had written Problems and Solutions about the First Principles which develops the Neoplatonist philosophy as expounded by Proclus.
		Again Simplicius was exposed to similar views to those he had learnt in Alexandria and his philosophy was built up in a consistent way.
		It was therefore natural that Damascius, Simplicius and five other members of the
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Simplicius.html (857 words)

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