The six Enneads (ΕΝΝΕΑΔΕΣ) are the collected writings of the Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus (ΠΛΩΤΙΝΟΣ) arranged by his student Porphyry (ΠΟΡΦΥΡΙΟΣ) into fifty-four books with each Ennead containing nine. The translator Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie arranged these books chronologically rather than according to Porphyry's numeration. This recording is organized according to Porphyry's numeration with Roman numerals indicating the Ennead and Hindu-Arabic numerals indicating the book e.g. VI.9 would be the ninth book of the sixth Ennead. A hyperlinked table of contents at Volume 1 Page 3 of the gutenberg.org text will enable you to jump to the specific Ennead if you wish to read along with the recording. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)
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Genres for the project: Classics (Antiquity); *Non-fiction/Philosophy/Ancient; Philosophy
Keywords that describe the book: Christianity, Judaism, Plato, Islam, neoplatonism, Plotinus, Porphyry, Philosophy, Soul, Ethics, God, Morality, Theology
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As I mention in the summary after this recording is complete I plan to make a duplicate project and rearrange the audio files so that people have the choice of which order they want to listen to them in. I expect this recording to be at least 24 hours long.
GeoffreyEdwards wrote:As I mention in the summary after this recording is complete I plan to make a duplicate project and rearrange the audio files so that people have the choice of which order they want to listen to them in. I expect this recording to be at least 24 hours long.
We don't really allow the same recording in 2 different projects and you surely wouldn't want to read the same thing twice - especially 24 hours worth . Or have I got it wrong and you are planning to read a different translation?
I was planning on using the same recording twice but reorganizing the sections. The first time following the translator's organization which can be sort of intimidating to someone who knows nothing of Plotinus because it looks chaotic. The benefit of using this organization is that someone can listen and look at Gutenberg at the same time. If I can only choose one way then I will choose this one.
Ennead I Treatise 6
Ennead IV Treatise 7
Ennead III Treatise 1
Ennead IV Treatise 1
Ennead V Treatise 9
Ennead IV Treatise 8
etc
The second version would following the naming convention in numeric order which is how some people will prefer to read this book:
Ennead I Treatise 1
Ennead I Treatise 2
...
Ennead I Treatise 9
...
Ennead II Treatise 1
Ennead II Treatise 2
Thanks Geoffrey. I can see why you want it.
I'll set it up , go ahead with your first version and I'll do some thinking and consulting about the second plan
I've folded like a deck of cards and decided to arrange the sections by name. This will make listening less confusing to someone who isn't following allowing with the Guthrie translation. The nice thing about Gutenberg is that the sections are hyperlinked so it is easy to jump to the right volume. Section 6 is uploaded.
Thank you for catching that. I've amplified it by 3.8. I say Standard PL to make it easier on the volunteer than Wordperfect but anything else you catch that jumps out at you please let me know.
Will do. WP is nice but the errors I find usually involve the words "the" and "a" and their presence or absence is of little importance to the meaning of the text.
Section 1 is uploaded. There was one typo in the Gutenberg text where it says organizing instead of organism on 1199. I'm experimenting with a few different recording environment setups so you'll have to tell me which you prefer.