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Enneads

The collected treatises of Plotinus, arranged by Porphyry in six groups of nine.

Greek philosophy and Neoplatonism

The Enneads are fifty-four treatises written by Plotinus in the third century and edited by his disciple Porphyry into six sets of nine. They cover ethics, the cosmos, the soul, Intellect and the One. Stephen MacKenna’s translation brought them to many twentieth-century readers.