Numenius of Apamea (Greek: Νουμήνιος ὁ ἐξ Ἀπαμείας, Noumēnios ho ex Apameias; Latin: Numenius Apamensis) was a Greek philosopher, who lived in Rome, and...
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Numenius can refer to: Numenius of Apamea, Syrian Greek philosopher of the 2nd century CE Curlew, any of 9 species of birds grouped in the genus Numenius...
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Platonism (redirect from Views of Plato)
nature of Platonism during this time is shown by its incorporation into Pythagoreanism (Numenius of Apamea) and into Jewish philosophy (Philo of Alexandria)...
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mathematician Nicomachus of Gerasa (fl. 150 AD), who wrote about the mystical properties of numbers. In the 2nd century, Numenius of Apamea sought to fuse additional...
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divine intermediaries, which are the gods and daemons of popular religion. Numenius of Apamea (c. 160) combined Platonism with neopythagoreanism and...
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principle of "twoness" or "otherness". Numenius of Apamea, a Neopythagorean philosopher in the latter 2nd century CE, said that Pythagoras gave the name of Monad...
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Demiurge (category Conceptions of God)
Before Numenius of Apamea and Plotinus' Enneads, no Platonic works ontologically clarified the Demiurge from the allegory in Plato's Timaeus. The idea of Demiurge...
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Ancient Greek philosophy (redirect from History of ancient Greek philosophy)
period of Middle Platonism, which absorbed ideas from the Peripatetic and Stoic schools. More extreme syncretism was done by Numenius of Apamea, who combined...
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(Neo-Platonist philosopher) Sopater of Apamea – (sophist and Neoplatonist philosopher) Junias – (1st-century bishop) Numenius of Apamea – (2nd century philosopher)...
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Neoplatonism (redirect from Bibliography of Neoplatonism)
and the Neopythagoreans, especially Numenius of Apamea. Philo, a Hellenized Jew, translated Judaism into terms of Stoic, Platonic, and Neopythagorean...
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