Cassius Longinus
Philosopher and critic
Cassius Longinus was a Greek rhetorician and philosophical critic. Born in either Emesa or Athens, he studied at Alexandria under Ammonius Saccas and Origen the Pagan, and taught for thirty years in Athens, one of his pupils being Porphyry. Wikipedia
Born: Homs, Syria
Died: 273 AD, Homs, Syria
Books: On the Sublime, Il sublime, Du sublime, and more
Literary movement: Platonism
Period: Late antiquity