Select Works of Porphyry - Translated by Thomas Taylor

New book - pick up a bargain!\n\nSelect Works of Porphyry\nTranslated by Thomas Taylor\n\n248pp \nISBN 978-1898910-015 \n\nHardback bound and sewn in library buckram\nwith gold blocking to the spine, modern typeface, and Stephanus pagination\n\n \n\nContains three works: Abstinence from\nAnimal Foods; in which aspiring philosophers are shown how to apply\nphilosophical ideas and concepts in a practical way in their daily lives. A\nlearned and wide ranging individual, Porphyry presents us with an insight into\nmany cultural traditions which had their expressions in the Classical world.\nAuxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures; clearly reveals his\nposition in the succession of later Platonists: he stands between Plotinus\n(whose Enneads he collected and arranged), and Proclus. The careful way in\nwhich this work explores its subject is perfected in Proclus' Elements of\nTheology. In Concerning Homer's Cave of the Nymphs, the third work in this\nvolu;