/lit/ - Literature

Ok, anons, here is a short story about a recent series of discoveries I made yesterday afternoon.

HOW I DECIDED I AM GOING TO BECOME A NEOPLATONIC SCHOLAR

I was re-reading the Enneads of Plotinus, checking the TLG to see whether the translation of this or that bit was accurate, and listing relevant quotations for a short essay I am writing. In order to be as well-informed as possible on the single treatises of the Enneads, I have started to buy, very slowly, the volumes of the Parmenides Publishing edition of Plotinus. Most of their commentaries are informative at best, and the notes are not very helpful, so yesterday afternoon I was finally forced to ask myself why did I keep buying their books. Meanwhile, I had stopped looking at the TLG and started browsing, almost unconsciously, through the website of Parmenides Publishing - and I found myself staring with wonder at the cover of Enneads VI.8

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