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The Enneads of Plotinus: A Commentary, Volume 1Paul KalligasElizabeth Key Fowden and Nicolas Pilavachi (trs.)Reviewed by Dominic O'Meara (University of Fribourg), 2014&#160;This is the first volume of a groundbreaking commentary on one of the most important works of ancient philosophy, the Enneads of Plotinus—a text that formed the basis of Neoplatonism and had a deep influence on early Christian thought and medieval and Renaissance philosophy. This volume covers the first three of the six Enneads, as well as Porphyry's Life of Plotinus, a document in which Plotinus’s student—the collector and arranger of the Enneads—introduces the philosopher and his work. A landmark contribution to modern Plotinus scholarship, Paul Kalligas’s commentary is the most detailed and extensive ever written for the whole of the Enneads.For each of the treatises in the first three Enneads, Kalligas provides a brief introduction that presents the philosophical background against which Plotinus’s contribution can be assessed; a synopsis giving the main lines and the articulation of the argument; and a running commentary placing Plotinus’s thought in its intellectual context and making evident the systematic association of its various parts with each other.(Text by the organizers)&#160;Table of Contents:&#160;Preface to the English Edition - Paul KalligasTranslator’s Preface - Nicolas PilavachiMain AbbreviationsPorphyry: On the Life of Plotinus and the Order of His BooksPlotinus: First EnneadSecond EnneadThird EnneadList of Variant ReadingsKey to the Chronological Order of Plotinus’ TreatisesSuggested Further Readings on Individual TreatisesFiguresIndex of Passages Cited With Their Abbreviations and Modern Editors&#160;Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/he-enneads-of-plotinus-a-commentary-volume-1/