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Numenius, a Greek philosopher who was a native of Apamea, in Syria, wrote during the latter half of the 2nd century AD.
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Historian Kennieth Guthrie writes that " Numenius is perhaps the only recognized Greek philosopher who explicitly studied Moses, the prophets, and the life of Jesus.
Alexander Numenius ( Gr. ), or ( according to the Suda ) Alexander, son of Numenius, was a Greek rhetorician who flourished in the first half of the 2nd century.
The final possibility is that Numenius is a Latinized form of the Greek noumenios, which was the word Diogenes Laertius used to refer to a species of curlew.
Philosopher Numenius of Apamea echoes this position in his well known statement " What is Plato but Moses speaking Attic Greek?
Numenius of Apamea () was a Greek philosopher, who lived in Apamea in Syria and flourished during the latter half of the 2nd century AD.
Numenius and philosopher
The Christian saint and religious philosopher Justin Martyr ( 103 – 165 AD ) drew the same conclusion as Numenius, according to other experts.
Numenius and who
The idea of Demiurge was, however, addressed before Plotinus in the works of Christian writer Justin Martyr who built his understanding of the Demiurge on the works of Numenius.
His treatise is really adapted from that by Alexander, son of Numenius, as is expressly stated by Julius Rufinianus, who brought out a supplementary treatise, augmented by material from other sources.
Numenius also draws much from Plato ’ s Timaeus which presents a story of a great creator called the Demiurge who created everything in the likeness of Platonic Forms.
Numenius and was
Besides Ammonius, Plotinus was also influenced by the works of Alexander of Aphrodisias, Numenius, and various Stoics.
The second work traditionally attributed to Alexander Numenius, titled On Show-Speeches (), is acknowledged by virtually all critics to not be the work of this Alexander, but of a later grammarian also named Alexander ; it is, to speak more correctly, made up very clumsily from two distinct works, one of which was written by one Alexander, and the other by Menander Rhetor.
It may be only an accidental coincidence that about the end of the 2nd century " Archon " was one of the names given by the Platonist Harpocration to the " Second God " of Numenius ( Proclus in Tim.
The Late Eocene ( Montmartre Formation, some 35 mya ) fossil Limosa gypsorum of France was originally placed in Numenius and may in fact belong there.
Limosa gypsorum, then regarded as a Numenius species, was a discrepancy in this general trend.
Megasthenes, like Numenius of Apamea, was simply comparing the ideas of the different ancient cultures.
The Slender-billed Curlew ( Numenius tenuirostris ) is ( or was ) a bird in the wader family Scolopacidae.
In the 2nd century, Numenius of Apamea sought to fuse additional elements of Platonism into Neopythagoreanism, prefiguring the rise of Neoplatonism ( Iamblichus, in particular, was especially influenced by Neopythagoreanism ).
Numenius was a Neopythagorean, but his object was to trace the doctrines of Plato up to Pythagoras, and at the same time to show that they were not at variance with the dogmas and mysteries of the Brahmins, Jews, Magi and Egyptians.
Numenius called Plato the " Atticizing Moses ," i. e., that Plato was the Hellenic Moses.
According to Proclus, Numenius held that there was a kind of trinity of gods, the members of which he designated as " father ," " maker ," and " that which is made ," i. e. the world.
Numenius and Apamea
Before Numenius of Apamea and Plotinus ' Enneads, no Platonic works ontologically clarified the Demiurge from the allegory in Plato's Timaeus.
* Numenius of Apamea
Numenius of Apamea ( c. 160 ) combined Platonism with Neopythagoreanism and other, eastern, philosophies, in a move which would prefigure the development of Neoplatonism.
Numenius of Apamea ( c. 160 ) combined both Neopythagoreanism and Platonism.
The eclectic nature of Platonism during this time is shown by its incorporation into Pythagoreanism ( Numenius of Apamea ) and into Jewish philosophy ( Philo of Alexandria ).
Leemans, Studie over den Wijsgeer Numenius van Apamea met Uitgave der Fragmenten, Brussels 1937, and E. Des Places, Numénius, Fragments, Collection Budé, Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1973.
Numenius and wrote
Contrary to orthodox Judeo-Christian teaching ( and more in line with the teachings of Gnosticism ), like Orpheus and Plato Numenius wrote of the human body as a prison of the soul.
Numenius and century
* Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris-critically endangered, possibly extinct ( early 21st century?
Numenius and .
* Middle Platonism under such works as Numenius express the Universe emanating from the Monad or One.
The genuine work of Alexander Numenius has also been edited, together with Minucianus and Phoebammon, by L. Normann, with a Latin translation and useful notes, Upsala, 1690, 8vo.
Image: Bristle-thighed Curlew with chicks. jpg | Bristle-thighed Curlew ( Numenius tahitiensis, right ) and Ruddy Turnstones ( Arenaria interpres )
The curlews, genus Numenius, are a group of eight species of birds, characterised by long, slender, downcurved bills and mottled brown plumage.
In Europe " curlew " usually refers to one species, the Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata.
Middle and Neo-Platonists such as Numenius and Plotinus also showed some Neopythagorean influence.
The Whimbrel ( Numenius phaeopus ) is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae.
Numenius phaeopus MHNT. jpg | Egg of Whimbrel-MHNT
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