Principal Works
De abstinentia [On Abstinence from Animal Food] (philosophy) written before 263
History of Philosophy (history/philosophy) written before 263
Life of Pythagoras (history/philosophy) written before 263
On the Images of the Gods (essay) written before 263
On the Philosophical Benefit of Oracles (essay) written before 263
Against the Christians (philosophy) written after 263
Chronica (philosophy) written after 263
De Regressu Animae (philosophy) written after 263
The Homeric Questions (literary criticism) written after 263
Isagoge [Eisagoge Introduction] (philosophical commentary) written after 263
Lecture on Literature (literary criticism) written after 263
Letter to Anebo (essay) written after 263
Letter to Marcella (correspondence/philosophy) written after 263
Parmenides Commentary (philosophy) written after 263
Sententiae [Sentences] (philosophy) written after 263
Summikta Zetemata [Various Investigations] (philosophy) written after 263
Enneads [editor] (philosophy) 301
Vita Plotini [Life of Plotinus] (biography) 301
Select Works of Porphyry (translated by T. Taylor) 1817
Life of Plotinus and The Enneads of Plotinus (translated by A. H. Armstrong) 1966
Cave of the Nymphs in the Odyssey (translated by R. Lamberton) 1969
Porphyry the Philosopher, To Marcella (translated by K. Wicker) 1969
Life of Plotinus (translated by G. R. Evans) 1980
On Abstinence from Animal Food (edited by E. Wynn-Tyson) 1988
Porphyry's Launching-Points to the Realm of Mind: An Introduction to the Neoplatonic Philosophy of Plotinus (translated by Kenneth Guthrie) 1989
The Homeric Questions (edited by Robin R. Schlunk) 1993
Porphyry's Against the Christians: The Literary Remains (ranslated by R. Joseph Hoffmann) 1994
On Aristotle's Categories (translated by C. Evangeliou) 1996
Porphyry's Letter to His Wife Marcella: Concerning the Life of Philosophy and the Ascent to the Gods (translated by Alice Zimmern) 1996
On Abstinence from Killing Animals (translated by Gillian Clark) 2000
Porphyry: Introduction (edited by Jonathan Barnes) 2003
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