Order of the Enneads

Porphyry's arrangement of the Enneads

By Ennead

List of Enneads as arranged by Porphyry and the corresponding chronological order (Gerson 2018: 8-9).

Ennead	Chronological order
1.1	53
1.2	19
1.3	20
1.4	46
1.5	36
1.6	1
1.7	54
1.8	51
1.9	16
2.1	40
2.2	14
2.3	52
2.4	12
2.5	25
2.6	17
2.7	37
2.8	35
2.9	33
3.1	3
3.2	47
3.3	48
3.4	15
3.5	50
3.6	26
3.7	45
3.8	30
3.9	13
4.1	21
4.2	4
4.3	27
4.4	28
4.5	29
4.6	41
4.7	2
4.8	6
4.9	8
5.1	10
5.2	11
5.3	49
5.4	7
5.5	32
5.6	24
5.7	18
5.8	31
5.9	5
6.1	42
6.2	43
6.3	44
6.4	22
6.5	23
6.6	34
6.7	38
6.8	39
6.9	9

By order

Enneads in chronological order and the corresponding order of Porphyry

Chronological order	Ennead
1	1.6
2	4.7
3	3.1
4	4.2
5	5.9
6	4.8
7	5.4
8	4.9
9	6.9
10	5.1
11	5.2
12	2.4
13	3.9
14	2.2
15	3.4
16	1.9
17	2.6
18	5.7
19	1.2
20	1.3
21	4.1
22	6.4
23	6.5
24	5.6
25	2.5
26	3.6
27	4.3
28	4.4
29	4.5
30	3.8
31	5.8
32	5.5
33	2.9
34	6.6
35	2.8
36	1.5
37	2.7
38	6.7
39	2.1
40	2.1
41	4.6
42	6.1
43	6.2
44	6.3
45	3.7
46	1.4
47	3.2
48	3.3
49	5.3
50	3.5
51	1.8
52	2.3
53	1.1
54	1.7

Großschrift

Plotinus’s Großschrift consists of treatises 30-33.

• 3.8[30]
• 5.8[31]
• 5.5[32]
• 2.9[33]

References

• Gerson, Lloyd P. (trans.) (2018). The Enneads. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-00177-0.

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