His contributions to literary scholarship include a work called Homeric Questions that is a main source for much earlier scholarship.
His contributions to literary scholarship include a work called Homeric Questions that is a main source for much earlier scholarship. His works on Aristotle included the Isagoge [ees-uh-GOH-gay], which discussed the five words that were key to understanding Aristotle's Categories. His Aids to the Study of Intelligibles argued for the theses that the one is prior to and independent of the soul and intellect, and that the intellect is identical with thought. He also argued on historical-critical grounds for the late date of the Book of Daniel in his Against the Christians. Other works include a Letter to Marcella and On Abstinence from Eating Animals, but his most read work is an excerpt from a now-otherwise-lost history of philosophy and includes the story of how its subject had communion with the One four times. FTP, name this native of Gaza who used a scheme of six sets of nine treatises to arrange the works of his teacher Plotinus.
His contributions to literary scholarship include a work called Homeric Questions that is a main source for much earlier scholarship.
{Porphyry} of Gaza (accept {Malchus})