Select works of Porphyry : containing his four books On abstinence from animal food, his treatise on the Homeric cave of the Nymphs and his Auxiliaries to the perception of intelligible natures ; with an appendix explaining the allegory of the wanderings of Ulysses by the translator ((TT Series Vol. II)

1823. Thomas Taylor was one of the outstanding translators of the philosophical writings of the Greeks and Romans, and also published several original works on philosophy and mathematics. Many of his important contributions in these fields have been long out-of-print and are extremely difficult to obtain, having been issued in very small editions. Most of Taylor's translations have an archaic elegance which preserves the spirit of the older authors in a manner not evident in more recent translations. Taylor also added notes and commentaries which give valuable insight into the essential meaning often obscure in the actual text. Contains: Abstinence from Animal Foods; His Treatise on the Homeric Cave of the Nymphs; and His Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures. Taylor's Allegory on the Wanderings and Trials of Ulysses completes this volume. See the many other works by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.… (more)