A Booklist for the Ambitious
Here is a more ambitious list of the more important works for those who love reading and in-depth research. Amazon.com is a good place to get an overview of their contents and customer reviews.
Classic Works
- The Complete Dialogues of Plato
- Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
- Meditations on the Soul: Selected Letters of Marsilio Ficino
- Maximus of Tyre - Dissertations, Trapp
- Kenneth Guthrie - A Pythagorean Sourcebook
- Plotinus - The Enneads
- Macrobius - Commentary on the Dream of Scipio
- Aristotle - The Basic Works of Aristotle, Oxford
- Hierocles - Commentary on the Golden Verses of Pythagoras, Schibli
- Proclus - The Elements of Theology
- Proclus - Commentary on the Parmenides
- Proclus - Commentary on the Timaeus (multi-volume)
- Proclus - commentary on Euclid's Elements
- Iamblichus - On the Mysteries of Egypt
- Damascius - Commentary of Plato's Phaedo, Westerlink
- Sorabji - The Philosophy of the Commentators (3 volumes)
Contemporary Looks at Platonism and Hellenism
- Robert Cushman - Therapeia: Plato's Conception of Philosophy
- D.C. Schindler - Plato's Critique of Impure Reason: On Goodness and Truth in the Republic
- Francisco Gonzalez - Dialectics and Dialogue: Plato's Practice of Philosophical Inquiry
- Rosemary Desjardins - Plato and the Good
- Algis Uzdavinys - Philosophy as a Right of Rebirth: From Ancient Egypt to Neoplatonism
- Brian Hines - Return to the One: Plotinus's Guide to God-Realization
- Frederic Schoeder - Form and Transformation: A Study on the Philosophy of Plotinus
- Pierre Hadot - Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
- Hermann Schibli - Hierocles of Alexandria
- R.T. Wallis - Neoplatonism
- Tim Addey - Beyond the Shadows and The Unfolding Wings
- Lloyd Gerson - Aristotle and Other Platonists
- Eric Perl - Theophany: the Neoplatonic Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite
- Gregory Shaw - Theurgy and the Soul: the Neoplatonism of Iamblichus
- Radek Chlup - Proclus: An Introduction
- Robert Lawlor - Sacred Geometry: philosophy and practice
On Related Subjects
- Robert Wood - A Path into Metaphysics
- Joseph Campbell - The Power of Myth
- Ginette Paris - Pagan Meditations
- Jonathan Kirsch - God Against the Gods
- Aldous Huxley - The Perennial Philosophy
- Paul Weiss - Being and Other Realities