Jamblich of Chalcis (c. 250 - c. 325) is considered by some researchers to be a student of Porphyry and the third great philosopher of the Neoplatonic school, others - a follower of the Alexandrian Neopythagoreans and Peripatetics, who has only an external relationship to the school of Plotinus. The third volume consisted of works representing the Holy Tradition of the Pythagorean school, as it existed in the Asia Minor provinces of the Empire IV century. according to R. X.