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Sep 2024
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Porphyry, Vegetarianism & Animal Sacrifi...

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Clark, Gillian (translated by) (2000). "Porphyry: On Abstinence from Killing Animals". Bristol Classical Press.


Gerson, Loyd P. (ed.) (2019). "Plotinus: The Enneads". Cambridge University Press.


Gerson, Loyd P (2008). "Cambridge Companion to Plotinus". Cambridge University Press.


Huffman, Carl A. (ed.) (2017). "A History of Pythagoreanism". Cambridge University Press.


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.


Kirk, G.S., J.E. Raven & M. Schofield (1983). "The Presocratic Philosophers". Second Edition. Cambridge 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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