Enneads

The Six Enneads is a book whose title is sometimes abbreviated to The Enneads or Enneads, and was written by the Neo-Platonist Plotinus; it was edited and compiled by his last student Porphyry, in a short period c. 270 CE, after the death of Plotinus. Plotinus was a Platonic philosopher, being possibly a 12th to 14th generation student of the Greek philosopher Plato. Plotinus claimed his Platonist education was passed to him by the Platonist Ammonius Saccas of the Egyptian city of Alexandria and one of the founders of Neo-Platonism. This article refers to the version translated into modern English, by Stephen Mackenna and B. S. Page. It is divided into six chapters (called enneads) and each chapter is subdivided into nine subchapters (called tractates).

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Plotinus: Plotinus (ca. 205–270) is widely considered the father of Neoplatonism. Much of our biographical information about Plotinus comes from Porphyry's preface to his edition of Plotinus' Enneads....

Porphyry: Porphyry (Greek Πορφύριος "purple-clad") may refer to:...