/lit/ - Literature

Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts, Book of the Dead, Orphic Hymns, Homeric Hymns, Corpus Hermeticum, Hesiod, Iliad and Odyssey, Presocratics, Plato Complete Works, Aristotle Metaphysics, the Dream of Scipio, Chaldean Oracles, Fragments of Numenius, Dissertations of Maximus of Tyre, Enneads, Porphyry's Letter to Anebo, Iamblichus De Mysteriis, Proclus Commentary on the Timaeus, Hermias On the Phaedrus, Simplicius Commentary on Epictetus Handbook, 'Simplicius' Commentary On the Soul, Olympiodorus On the First Alcibiades and his Commentary on Plato's Gorgias, Damascius Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles.
A TL;DR
Just Plato then
Uzdavinys - Philosophy as a Rite of Rebirth, and Philosophy and Theurgy in Late Antiquity.
Then Plato again to see how you missed everything important the first time.
Uzdavinys' breadth obviously results in some spurious and specious claims, but he's on point most of the time.

Only if you haven't read the Neoplatonists.

>>16070342
Egyptian mythology, Philolaus, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Plutarch, Alcinous Handbook of Platonism, Aelius Aristides, Maximus of Tyre, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, Dexippus, Eunapius and Philostratus, Julian, Themistius, Synsesius, Syrianus, Hermias, Proclus, Ammonius, Damascius, Pseudo-Dionysius, Simplicius, Priscian, Olympiodorus, David and Elias, Boethius, Al-kindi, Eriugena, al-Farabi, Avicenna, Averroes... Schopenhauer?
The passage in OP is from Thomas Taylor.
Modern eminent Platonists are Dillon, Gerson, Finnamore, Uzdavinys, Polymnia Athanassiadis, Boys-Stones, james wilberding, that woman who translated Damascius...

Revive the Mysteries.

Read Iamblichus.
Become Platonist.
The goal of existence is to become Guardians, co-creators. All liberation seekers are nihilists, for they debase the world, any state of existence not worth revisiting is not worth existing in the first place.
The One is nothing but the pure Will and Love for the Other to be. You delude yourself you seekers of Rest. To behold the Good is to be filled, and we are limited, so what happens when something limited is infinitely filled?
It overflows, to overflow is to act and become Gods, or lovers, custodians of the earth, artists, leaders, philosophers.
The only reason to escape the cave is to joyously and eagerly return into it.

>>15781219
Subjects are the only objects.
The Forms are the Gods.
>It is thus a circular process.
Yes. Being Intellectualizes itself into Life.
What's first, the serpent of Zeus, Atum Ra, or the primordial egg?

>>15737599
Minos-laws
Not Meno laws
I blame my phone posting