Cassius Dionysius Longinus Edit

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( fr ) Cassius Dionysius Longinus (c. 213-273) was an Ethnic Greek rhetorician and philosophical critic. The origin of his gentile name Cassius is unknown; it can only be conjectured that he adopted it from a Roman patron. He was perhaps a native of Emesa (Homs) in Syria, the birthplace of his uncle Fronto the rhetorician. He studied at Alexandria under Origen the heathen, and taught for thirty years in Athens, one of his pupils being the Neoplatonist Porphyry.