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Numenius of Apamea
Numenius of Apamea
c. 115 CE–c. 185 CE · Apamea
Numenius of Apamea (2nd century CE) was a Greek philosopher of the Neo-Pythagorean and Platonist tradition. He sought to recover what he saw as the original teaching of Pythagoras and Plato, and was notably open to the wisdom of other peoples, drawing on Egyptian, Persian, and Jewish ideas. His works survive in fragments, and his thought is regarded as an important forerunner of Neoplatonism.
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About Apamea
Apamea on the Orontes, in northwestern Syria near modern Qalaat al-Madiq, was a major Hellenistic city founded by the Seleucids. It was a significant philosophical center: the Stoic Posidonius and the Neopythagorean/Middle Platonist Numenius were both natives, and the Neoplatonist Iamblichus founded his influential school there in the early fourth century AD.
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