Porphyry was a Phoenician Neoplatonic philosopher born in Tyre, Roman Phoenicia during Roman rule. He edited and published the Enneads, the only collection of the work of Plotinus, his teacher. 233 – 301; died at about 68. Alive at the same time as Constantine the Great, Origen, Diophantus of Alexandria, Cyprian, and Nagarjuna. Wiki link