Iamblichus
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Iamblichus was a Syrian Arab Neoplatonic philosopher who determined a direction later taken by Neoplatonism. Iamblichus was also the biographer of the Greek mystic, philosopher, and mathematician Pyth
Iamblichus
Emesene dynasty
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The Emesene dynasty, also called the Sampsigeramids or the Sampsigerami or the House of Sampsigeramus, were a Roman client dynasty of Arab priest-kings known to have ruled by 46 BC from Arethusa and l
Iamblichus
…biographer, Eunapius, Iamblichus was born in Chalcis (later called Qinnašrīn) in Coele Syria, now in northwest Syria. Iamblichus was descended from the Emesene dynasty. He initially studied under Anatolius of Laodicea and later studied under Porphyry, a pupil of Plotinus (the founder of Neoplatonism). Iamblichus…
Ash Shmemis castle, built by Sampsiceramus I
The Emesa temple to the sun god El-Gabal, with the holy stone, on the reverse of this 3rd-century AD bronze coin by Roman usurper Uranius Antoninus
The Tomb of Sampsigeramus, photographed 1907. Its builder Gaius Julius Sampsigeramus may have been a relative of the Emesan dynasty.
Arte Alhambra I