Preface to the English Edition

Translator's Preface

Main Abbreviations

Porphyry: On the Life of Plotinus and the Order of His Books

Appendixes
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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