Collection The classical authors
Plotinus
Neoplatonist philosopher, born in Egypt, c. 204-270
Plotinus wrote fifty-four treatises between 253 and 270. Porphyry, his disciple, edited them around 300 in six groups of nine, the Enneads, and wrote the Life of Plotinus that opens them.
Works
- Enneads (Enneades, 253-270). Among the treatises, On Beauty (I, 6), Against the Gnostics (II, 9) and On the Three Primary Hypostases (V, 1).