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Iamblichus' Life of Pythagoras
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Iamblichus, Thomas Taylor (Translator)
These authentic memoirs of the life of Pythagoras, father of philosophy and inventor of geometry, hold great interest for all lovers of wisdom. This classic translation by Thomas Taylor is derived from sources of antiquity and was first printed in 1818.
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Fable of Cupid and Psyche
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Thomas Taylor (Translator)
A photographic facsimile of the 1795 edition, the title page of which reads: "The Fable of Cupid and Psyche, Translated from the Latin of Apuleius, to which are added, a Poetical Paraphrase on the Speech of Diotima, in the Banquet of Plato, Four Hymns, &c. &c., with an Introduction, in which the meaning of the fable is unfolded." Taylor's ...
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Porphyry on Abstinence from Animal Food
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Esme Wynne-Tyson (Editor), Thomas Taylor (Translator)
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Metamorphosis or Golden Ass of Apuleius
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Thomas Taylor (Translator)
Thomas Taylor's books are highly sought after because of his remarkable ability to translate seeming obscure texts into understandable gems of light. "Apuleius, the celebrated author of the following works, is undoubtedly the greatest of the ancient Latin Platonists. He is not to be classed among the chief of the disciples of Plato, yet he will ...
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Select Works of Plotinus
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Thomas Taylor (Translator), G R Mead (Editor)
Edited, preface, and bibliography by G.R.S. Mead. Contents: On the virtues; On Dialectic; On Matter; Against the Gnostics; On the Impassivity of Incorporeal Natures; On Eternity and Time; On the Immortality of the Soul; On the Three Hypostases that rank as the Principles of Things; On Intellect, Ideas, and Real Being; On the Essence of the Soul; A ...
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Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle
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Thomas Taylor (Translator)
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Again, Aristotle in his treatise On the Heavens, (Book II.) apparently opposes what is asserted by Plato in the Tiruaeus respecting the dissolution of ...
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The Hymns of Orpheus
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Thomas Taylor (Translator), Manly P. Hall (Adapted by)
A photographic facsimile of the 1792 edition, published in London, this includes a preliminary dissertation on "The Life and Theology of Orpheus, " "The Initiations of Orpheus" which were the invocations used in the Eleusinian Mysteries, and "Concerning the Beautiful" by Plotinus. These comprise a compendium of the teachings of Orpheus, a ...
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Mystical Hymns of Orpheus (1824
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Thomas Taylor (Translator)
This work was translated from the Greek and demonstrated to be the invocation which were used in the Eleusinian Mysteries, with considerable emendations, alterations and additions. These hymns were originally written by Orpheus in Greek and when literally translated into English, lose much of their propriety and force. In their native tongue, they ...
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Iamblichus' Life of Pythagoras or Pythagoric Life
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Thomas Taylor (Translator)
Accompanied by fragments of the ethical writings of certain Pythagoreans in the Doric dialect; and a collection of Pythagoric sentences from Stobaeus and others, which are omitted by Gale in his Opuscula Mythologica, and have not been notices by any editor. This work is translated from the Greek and due to the age of the original, many pages are ...
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The Timaeus and Critias of Plato
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Plato, Thomas Taylor (Translator)
An accurate translation of two Plato works, Thomas Taylor was considered the most noted translator and scholar of Greek philosophy in the 18th century. For the serious student of symbolism, The Timaeus provides an invaluable key to ancient cosmologies and gives the philosophic pattern and psychological meaning underlying the world mythologies. The ...
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Ocellus Lucanus "On the Nature of the Universe"
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Thomas Taylor (Translator), Manly P. Hall (Introduction by)
This facsimile reprint of the 1831 edition is a group of brief translations dealing with astrotheology. Maternus was one of the most famous early astrologers and is second in authority only to Ptolemy of Alexandria. His horoscope of the world is included from the 1533 edition of the Libri Matheseos and his discussion of the Thema Mundi. Proclus' ...
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Ennead III.6: On the Impassivity of the Bodiless
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Thomas Taylor Plotinus, Barrie Fleet (Translator)
Plotinus (c. AD 205-270) can be regarded as the greatest Greek philosopher of late Antiquity, and as the father of Neoplatonism. His Enneads ('the nines') are now recognised as seminal works in the development of Western thought. This book is the only detailed scholarly commentary available on this part of Plotinus' work, and should be invaluable ...
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Apuleius on the God of Socrates
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Thomas Taylor (Translator), Apuleius
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Ocellus Lucanus on the Nature of the Universe (1831)
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Ocellus Lucanus, Thomas Taylor (Translator)
Also Taurus, the Platonic Philosopher, on the eternity of the world; Julius Firmicus Maternus of the Thema Mundi, in which the positions of the stars at the commencement of several mundane periods is given; select theorems on the perpetuity of time by Proclus; all translated from the originals. These tracts will be perused with considerable ...
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Select Works of Porphyry: Containing His Four Books on Abstinence from Animal Food, His Treatise on the Homeric Cave of the Nymphs (1823)
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Porphyry, Thomas Taylor (Translator)
And His Auxiliaries To The Perception Of Intelligible Natures, With An Appendix, Explaining The Allegory Of The Wanderings Of Ulysses.
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The Dissertations of Maximus Tyrius V1-2 (1804)
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Maximus, Thomas Taylor (Translator)
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Plotinus on the Beautiful and on Intelligible Beauty
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Plotinus, Shrine of Wisdom (Translator), Thomas Taylor (Translator)
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Life of Pythagoras
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Thomas Taylor (Translator), Aamblichus, Iamblichus
An abridged version of this scarce mystical classic translated by Thomas Taylor.
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On the Mysteries
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Thomas Taylor (Translator), Iamblichus
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Fragments of the Lost Writings of Proclus
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Thomas Taylor (Translator), Robert Navon (Editor)
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The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians: To Which Are Added Extracts from Other Works of Julian Relative to Christians
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Thomas Taylor (Translator)
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On Eternity and Time
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Plotinus, Thomas Taylor (Translator)
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Ten Doubts Concerning Providence
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Proclus, Thomas Taylor (Translator)
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Commentary on the Book of Causes
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Thomas Aquinas, Saint, St Thomas Aquinas, Richard C Taylor (Translator)
The "Book of Causes" was judged by Thomas Aquinas to have been abstracted from Proclus' "Elements of Theology". This commentary is a distinct philosophical work which provides an extended view of his approach to Neoplatonic thought and functions as a guide to his metaphysics.
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On the Substance of Evil
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Proclus, Thomas Taylor (Translator)
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