Thomas Taylor translates three works by the third-century Neoplatonist Porphyry. The four books on abstinence from animal food argue for vegetarianism on philosophical and religious grounds, the essay on the Cave of the Nymphs reads Homer’s Odyssey allegorically, and the Auxiliaries gather sayings on the soul and the intelligible world.
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