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

• The Enneads Stephen MacKenna: A Biographical SketchExtracts from the Explanatory Matter in the First EditionThe Place of Plotinus in the History of Thought by Paul Henry, S. J.Plotinus: An IntroductionPorphyry: On the Life of Plotinus and the Arrangement of His WorkPrefaceThe First EnneadFirst: The Animate and the ManSecond: The VirtuesThird: DialecticFourth: HappinessSixth: BeautyEighth: The Nature and Source of EvilNinth: "The Reasoned Dismissal"The Second EnneadThird: Are the Stars Causes?Fourth: MatterNinth: Against the Gnostics; or Against Those That Affirm the Creator of the Cosmos and the Cosmos Itself to be EvilThe Third EnneadSecond: Providence: First TreatiseThird: Providence: Second TreatiseFourth: Our Tutelary SpiritFifth: LoveSixth: The Impassivity of the UnembodiedSeventh: Time and EternityEighth: Nature, Contemplation, and the OneThe Fourth EnneadThird: Problems of the Soul (I)Fourth: Problems of the Soul (II)Eighth: The Soul's Descent into BodyThe Fifth EnneadFirst: The Three Initial HypostasesSecond: The Origin and Order of the Beings following on the FirstThird: The Knowing Hypostases and the TranscendantFourth: How the Secondaries rise from The First; and on The OneFifth: That the Intellectual Beings are not outside the Intellectual-Principle: and on The Nature of the GoodSeventh: Is there an Ideal Archetype of Particular Beings?Eighth: On the Intellectual BeautyNinth: The Intellectual Principle, the Ideas, and the Authentic ExistenceThe Sixth EnneadFourth: On the Integral Omnipresence of the Authentic Existent (I)Fifth: On the Integral Omnipresence of the Authentic Existent (II)Seventh: How the Multiplicity of the Ideal-Forms came into Being; and on The GoodEighth: On Free Will and the Will of the OneNinth: On the Good, or the OneAppendix I: The Chronological Order of the TractatesAppendix II: Index of Platonic ReferencesSelected Bibliography

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