The Enneads: Abridged Edition - Paperback

by Plotinus (Author), Stephan MacKenna (Translator), John Dillon (Abridged by)

Here is a highly original synthesis of Platonism, mystic passion, ideas from Greek philosophy, and variants of the Trinity and other central tenets of Christian doctrine by the brilliant thinker who has had an immense influence on mystics and religious writers.

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Author Biography

John Dillon is Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity College in Dublin.