Introduction

Sources/Recomended Reading:

• Cooper, John M. (ed.) (1997). "Plato: Complete Works". Hackett Publishing Company.
• Dillon, John (1996). "The Middle Platonists". Bristol Classical Press.
• Gerson, Loyd P. (ed.) (2019). "Plotinus: The Enneads". Cambridge University Press. (This is the translation of the Enneads I have been using in this episode).
• Gerson, Loyd P (2008). "Cambridge Companion to Plotinus". Cambridge University Press.
• Gregory, John (ed.) (1998). "The Neoplatonists: a reader". Routledge.
• Iamblichus "On the Mysteries". Tranlsated by Emma C. Clarke, John M. Dillon & Jackson P. Hershell. Writings from the Graeco-Roman World. Society of Biblical Literature.
• Proclus "The Elements of Theology: A Revised Text with Translation, Introduction, and Commentary". Translated by E.R. Dodds. Second Edition. Oxford University Press.
• O'Meara, Dominic J. (1999). "Plotinus: An Introduction to the Enneads". Oxford University Press.
• Shaw, Gregory (2014). "Theurgy and the Soul: The Neoplatonism of Iamblichus". Angelico Press/Sophia Perennis.
• Wallis, R.T. (1998). "Neoplatonism". Second Edition. Bristol Classical Paperbacks. Hackett Publishing Company.

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