The Six Enneads, sometimes abbreviated to The Enneads or Enneads, were written by the Neo-Platonist Plotinus; it was edited and compiled by his last student Porphyry in a short period (c. 270 AD) after the death of Plotinus. Plotinus was a Platonic philosopher, being possibly a 12th to 14th generation student of the Greek philosopher Plato. He claimed his Platonist education was passed to him by the Platonist Ammonius Saccas of Alexandria, one of the founders of Neo-Platonism.