Thinkers of the Classical Antiquity
Diophantus
200 – 284
Mathematicsquotes
Porphyry (philosopher)
233 – 301
Philosophyquotes
Porphyry was a Phoenician Neoplatonic philosopher born in Tyre, Roman Phoenicia during Roman rule. He edited and published the Enneads, the only collection of the work of Plotinus, his teacher.
The Pythagoreans made kindness to beasts a training in humanity and pity.
Elagabalus
203 – 222
Religionquotes
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, better known by his posthumous nicknames Elagabalus and Heliogabalus, was Roman emperor from 218 to 222, while he was still a teenager. His short reign was notorious for religious controversy and alleged sexual debauchery. A close relative to the Severan dynasty, he came from a prominent Syrian Arab family in Emesa (Homs), Syria, where he served as the head priest of the sun god Elagabal from a young age.
delighted to be called the mistress, the wife, the Queen of Hierocles.
Eusebius of Caesarea
260 – 340
Religionquotes
Eusebius of Caesarea, also known as Eusebius Pamphilius, was a historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian polemicist from the Roman province of Syria Palaestina. In about AD 314 he became the bishop of Caesarea Maritima.
While the saving message spread day by day, some providence brought from Ethiopia an officer of the queen, for that nation is still traditionally ruled by a woman.
Pausanias
150 – 175
Literaturequotes
Belistiche, a woman from the coast of Macedonia, won with the pair of foals … at the hundred and twenty-ninth Olympics.
Plotinus
205 – 270
Philosophyquotes
Plotinus was a Hellenistic Greek philosopher, born and raised in Roman Egypt. Plotinus is regarded by modern scholarship as the founder of Neoplatonism.
All teems with symbol; the wise man is the man who in any one thing can read another.
Philostratus
193 – 211
Historyquotes
Philostratus or Lucius Flavius Philostratus, called "the Athenian", was a Greek sophist of the Roman imperial period. His father was a minor sophist of the same name. He flourished during the reign of Septimius Severus (193–211) and died during that of Philip the Arab (244–249), probably in Tyre.
I, whenever I see thee, thirst, and holding the cup, apply it to my lips more for thy sake than for drinking.
Cyprian
200 – 258
Religionquotes
Cyprian was a bishop of Carthage and an early Christian writer of Berber descent, many of whose Latin works are extant. He is recognized as a saint in the Western and Eastern churches.
For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.
Words from December 10
"The Pythagoreans made kindness to beasts a training in humanity and pity."
Porphyry (philosopher)
233
"So people should abstain from other animals just as they should from the human."
Porphyry (philosopher)
233
"delighted to be called the mistress, the wife, the Queen of Hierocles."
Elagabalus
203
"He undertook to disparage my age when he himself had appointed his ten-year-old son."
Elagabalus
203
"While the saving message spread day by day, some providence brought from Ethiopia an officer of the queen, for that nation is still traditionally ruled by a woman."
Eusebius of Caesarea
260
"character is twofold: like the head of the body in that he is regarded as God and yet comparable to the feet in that he put on humanity for the sake of our salvation, a man of passions like ours."
Eusebius of Caesarea
260