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He took up the study of philosophy at the age of 27, around the year 232, and went to Alexandria to study. Plotinus was dissatisfied with every teacher he met until a friend suggested he go to Ammonius Saccas. Upon hearing Ammonius lecture, he declared to his friend "This was the man I was looking for," and began to study intently under this teacher. Plotinus spent the next eleven years in Alexandria until his 38th year, when he decided to investigate the philosophical teachings of the Persians and the Indians. As a result he left Alexandria and joined the army of Gordian III as it marched on Persia. However, on Gordian's death he found himself abandoned in a hostile land, and with difficulty found his way back to safety in Antioch.
At the age of 40, during the reign of Philip the ArabMarcus Julius Philippus (about 204 249), known in English as Philip the Arab was Roman emperor from 244 to 249. Little is known about Philip's early life and political career. He was born in Damascus in the Roman province of Syria. He was the son of a Jul, he came to RomeRome ( Italian and Latin Roma is the capital city of Italy, and of its Lazio region. It is located on the lower Tiber river, near the Mediterranean Sea, at 41°50'N, 12°15'E. The Vatican City State, a sovereign enclave within Rome, is the seat of the Roman, where he lived for most of the remainder of his life. He attracted a number of students in that city. His innermost circle included Porphyry, Gentilianus Amelius of Tuscany, the Senator Castricius Firmus, and Eustochius of Alexandria -- a doctor who devoted himself to learning from Plotinus and attended to him until his death.
Others included: Zethos, an Arabian by ancestry who died before Plotinus and left him a legacy and some land; Zoticus, a critic and poet; Paulinus, a doctor of Scythopolis; and Serapion from Alexandria. He had students amongst the Roman SenateThe Roman Senate (Lat. Senatus was a deliberative body which was important in the government of both the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. The word Senatus is derived from the Latin word senex ("old man" or "elder"); literally, "Senate" is understood t beside Castricius, such as Marcellus Orontius, Sabinillus, and Rogantianus. Women were also numbered amongst his students, including Gemina, in whose house he lived during his residence in Rome, and her daughter Gemina; and Amphiclea, the wife of Ariston the son of Iamblichus. He was a correspondent of the philosopher Cassius Longinus.
He also had the respect of the Emperor GallienusPublius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus ( 218- 268) ruled the Roman Empire as co-emperor with his father Valerian from 253 to 260, and then as the sole Roman Emperor from 260 to 268. He took control of the empire at a time when it was undergoing great crisis. and his wife Salonica . At one point Plotinus attempted to interest the Emperor Gallienus in rebuilding an abandoned settlement in CampaniaCampania is a region of Southern Italy, bordering on Lazio to the north-west, Molise to the north, Puglia to the north-east, Basilicata to the east, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. The region covers 13,595 kmē and has a population of 5. The name direc known as the City of Philosophers, where the inhabitants would live under the constitution set out in Plato'sFor the computing technology, see PLATO System. Plato ( Greek: Platon (c. 427 BC c. 347 BC) was an immensely influential classical Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, writer, and founder of the Academy in Athens. Plato, who is be Laws. The support of an Imperial subsidy did not come to pass due to reasons Porphyry did not know, and the settlement never happened.
After Porphyry went to live in Sicily, word came to him that Plotinus had died. The philosopher spent his final days in seclusion on an estate in Campania which his friend Zethus had bequeathed him. According to the account of Eustochius, who attended upon at the end, Plotinus' final words were: "Strive to give back the Divine in yourselves to the Divine in the All." At that moment a snake crept under the bed Plotinus lay, and slipped away through a hole in the wall; at the same moment Plotinus died.
Besides Ammonius, Plotinus was greatly influenced by the works of Alexander of Aphrodisias and Numenius .
Porphyry wrote the essays that became the Enneads over a period of years, from c.253 to a few months before his death. Plotinus was unable to revise his own work due to his poor eyesight. Yet his writings badly needed editing, according to Porphyry: Plotinus' handwriting was atrocious, he did not properly separate his words, and he cared nothing for spelling. He disliked the process of rewriting them, so he gave the task to Porphyry, who not only polished them but put them into the arrangement we now have them.
Although Plotinus attacked Gnosticism, he was silent about Christianity, of which he must have been aware. From all accounts his personal and social life exhibited the highest moral and spiritual standards.
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