Preface to the English Edition

Translator's Preface

Main Abbreviations

__Porphyry: On the Life of Plotinus and the Order of His Books__

Appendixes\\
A.\\
B.\\
C. Porphyry in Sicily and His Literary Activity There

__First Ennead__

I 1 [53]. What Is the Living Being, and What Is Man?\\
I 2 [19]. On Virtues\\
[[I.3 [20]]]. On Dialectic\\
I 4 [46]. On Well-Being\\
[[I.5 [36]]]. On Whether Well-Being Increases with Time\\
I 6 [1]. On Beauty\\
I 7 [54]. On the Primal Good and the Other Goods\\
I 8 [51]. On What Are and Whence Come Evils\\
[[I.9 [16]]]. On Going out of the Body

__Second Ennead__

II 1 [40]. On Heaven\\
II 2 [14]. On the Movement of Heaven\\
II 3 [52]. On Whether the Stars Are Causes\\
II 4 [12]. On Matter\\
II 5 [25]. On What Exists Potentially and What Actually\\
II 6 [17]. On Substance, or on Quality\\
II 7 [37]. On Complete Transfusion\\
II 8 [35]. On Sight, or How Distant Objects Appear Small\\
II 9 [33]. Against the Gnostics\\

__Third Ennead__

III 1 [3]. On Destiny\\
III 2-3 [47-48]. On Providence, Books I-II\\
III 4 [15]. On Our Allotted Guardian Spirit\\
III 5 [50]. On Love\\
III 6 [26]. On the Impassibility of Things without Body\\
III 7 [45]. On Eternity and Time\\
[[III.8 [30]]]. On Nature and Contemplation and the One\\
III 9 [13]. Various Considerations

List of Variant Readings

Key to the Chronological Order of Plotinus' Treatises

Suggested Further Readings on Individual Treatises

Figures

Index of Passages Cited