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Below are a selection of files which are in PDF format—mainly extracts from Prometheus Trust publications. PDF files require a program which is designed to open them, the most common of which is Adobe Reader.

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Extracts

The Great Plagues of Europe: how does Covid measure up? by J M Dillon

Hymn to Demeter-The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, translated by Hugh Evelyn-White

Introduction to De Anima—Thomas Taylor masterly introduction to Aristotle On the Soul (from TTS volume 24)

On the Essence of the Soul-Plotinus, translated by Thomas Taylor (from TTS volume 3)

Diotima Poetical Paraphrase—Thomas Taylor’s beautiful and perceptive paraphrase of Diotima’s speech in the Symposium (from TTS volume 14)

Thomas Taylor on the Golden Ass—Some of Thomas Taylor’s notes on Apuleius’ Golden Ass, including an exposition on the fable of Cupid and Psyche. (from TTS volume 14)

A Panegyric on the Most Eminent Intellectual Philosophers of Antiquity- Thomas Taylor’s tribute in verse to some of the great sages of philosophy (from TTS volume 33)

Platonic Philosophers Creed—Thomas Taylor’s profound and comprehensive summary of Platonic Philosophy.

Knowledge and Opinion from the Republic—Thomas Taylor’s translation of Republic 476e-480a, slightly adapted.

Concerning Prayer—extracts from Proclus, Iamblichus and Hierocles on Prayer.

Hermeas on the Phaedrus—extracts— A collection of passages from the Commentary of Hermeas (or Hermias) on the Phaedrus.
This file was updated in May 2013, with an added extract.

Plotinus on Dialectic—Ennead I, iii, translated by Thomas Taylor, with a note from Proclus’ Commentary on the Parmenides (from TTS volume III).

Thomas Taylor – Wisdom’s Champion – a lecture delivered to the Temenos Academy in 2008 as part of a celebration of the 250th anniversary of Taylor’s birth.

Thomas Taylor – Introduction to Plato – the Prometheus Trust’s version of Taylor’s Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato

Why Thomas Taylor is not the author of A New System of Religion- an article on the disputed authorship of an anonymous work

Knowledge and Opinion from the Republic—Thomas Taylor’s translation of Republic 476e-480a, slightly adapted.

Three Lectures on the Platonic Life:

First lecture: The Philosopher in the World by Tim Addey

Second lecture: The Philosopher in the Soul by Guy Wyndham-Jones

Third lecture: The Philosopher amongst the Stars by Tim Addey