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David the Invincible

David the Invincible

c. 500 CE–c. 575 CE · Alexandria

David, known by tradition as 'the Invincible,' was a Neoplatonist philosopher of late antiquity, generally placed in the late 5th or 6th century CE and connected with the school of Alexandria. He is associated with surviving introductions and commentaries on philosophy and on the logical works of Aristotle and Porphyry, used as teaching texts. He is also revered in the Armenian tradition, where many of his works were preserved in translation.

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AlexandriaEgypt

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About Alexandria

Alexandria (al-Iskandariyya) is the great Mediterranean port-city of northern Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE and a leading centre of learning in antiquity. After the Muslim conquest of Egypt (642) it remained a major commercial and scholarly hub; the Shadhili Sufi Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari (d. 1309) took his nisba from the city, and the modernist reformer Muhammad Abduh (d. 1905) was active in Egypt's intellectual life there and in Cairo.

In Alexandria at the same time

Ammonius, Eutocius, John Philoponus, Olympiodorus, Elias Neoplatonicus

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