Plotinus
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204 – 270 · 66 years · Rome · Europe
Founder of Neoplatonism: all reality emanates from the ineffable One through Intellect and Soul, and the human goal is to return to that source. A major influence on Christian and Islamic theology.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Galen — physician and anatomist, 75 years older
Middle East
- Zenobia — queen of Palmyra, 36 years younger
Africa
- Anthony the Great — saint, father of monasticism, 47 years younger
Asia
- Nagarjuna — Indian Buddhist philosopher, 54 years older
- Zhuge Liang — chancellor of Shu Han, 23 years older
- Cao Cao — warlord of the Three Kingdoms era, 49 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 220 Fall of the Han and the Three Kingdoms — aged 16, Asia
- 224 Rise of the Sasanian Empire — aged 20, Middle East
- c. 232 Hatepe eruption of Taupō — aged 28, Oceania
- 249–262 Plague of Cyprian — aged 45, Africa
- c. 250 Rise of the Classic Maya cities — aged 46, Americas
- 260 Battle of Edessa: a Roman emperor taken captive — aged 56, Middle East