Porphyry (philosopher)

Porphyry of Tyre ; Neoplatonic philosopher born in was used as a credit by Pappus of Alexandria.

He wrote original workings in the Greek Linguistic communication on the wide breed of topics, ranging from music theory to Homer to vegetarianism. His Isagoge, or Introduction, an first formation to logic and philosophy, was the specifics textbook on logic throughout the Middle Ages in its Latin and Arabic translations. Through works such as Philosophy from Oracles and Against the Christians which was banned by Constantine the Great, he was involved in a controversy with early Christians.

During his retirement in every copy burned in advertisement 435 and again in 448.

Augustine and the 5th-century ecclesiastical historian Socrates of Constantinople, assert that Porphyry was once a Christian.