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Cassius Maximus Tyrius (Maximus of Tyre) (Μάξιμος Τύριος), was a Greek
rhetorician and
philosopher who flourished in the time of the
Antonines and
Commodus, 2nd century A.D. His writings contain many allusions to the history of Greece, while there's little reference to Rome; hence it's inferred that he lived longer in Greece, perhaps as a professor at Athens. Although nominally a
Platonist, he's really an
Eclectic and one of the precursors of
Neoplatonism.
Writings
There are still extant by him forty-one essays or discourses on theological, ethical, and other philosophical subjects. With him God is the supreme being, one and indivisible though called by many names, accessible to reason alone:
In such a mighty contest, sedition and discord, you'll see one according law and assertion in all the earth, that there's one god, the king and father of all things, and many gods, sons of god, ruling together with him.
As animals form the intermediate stage between plants and human beings, so there exist intermediaries between God and man,
viz. daemons, who dwell on the confines of heaven and earth. The soul in many ways bears a great resemblance to the divinity; it's partly mortal, partly immortal, and, when freed from the fetters of the body, becomes a daemon. Life is the sleep of the soul, from which it awakes at death. The style of Maximus is superior to that of the ordinary sophistical rhetorician, but scholars differ widely as to the merits of the essays themselves.
Maximus of Tyre must be distinguished from the
Stoic Claudius Maximus, tutor of
Marcus Aurelius.
Translations
An English translation (1804) was made by
Thomas Taylor, the Neoplatonist. There is also a recent translation:
- Trapp, Michael. Maximus of Tyre: The Philosophical Orations. Clarendon Press. (1997).
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