Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Porphyry’s life and works
* Features the collected works of Porphyry, in both English translation and the original Greek
* Concise introductions to the major works
* Includes translations by Stephen MacKenna, Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie, Octavius Freire Owen and Thomas Taylor
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Easily locate the sections you want to read with individual contents tables
* Includes Porphyry’s rare treatises
* Provides a dual English and Greek text for four of the major works, allowing readers to compare the sections paragraph by paragraph — ideal for students
* Features a bonus biography
CONTENTS:
The Translations
Life of Plotinus
Life of Pythagoras
Isagoge
On the Faculties of the Soul
Against the Christians
On the Cave of the Nymphs in the Odyssey
On the Abstinence of Eating Animals
Aids to the Study of the Intelligibles
Letter to Marcella
Letter to the Egyptian Anebo
The Greek Texts
List of Greek Texts
The Dual Texts
Dual Greek and English Texts
The Biography
Brief Biography: Porphyry