I. Life of Porphyry

II. Contradiction and Change

1. Literal and metaphorical interpretation of Hades

2. Transmigration of souls

3. The One and Nous

4. Demiurge - Nous or Soul?

III. Superstition and Criticism

1. Introduction

2. The 'Philosophy from Oracles' and the 'De regressu animae'

IV. Metaphysics

V. Exegesis

1. Introduction

2. Homer

VI. Porphyry's Relationship to other Philosophers and Movements

Introduction

1. Citation of earlier authors

2. Plato

3. Aristotle

4. Plotinus

5. Middleplatonists, Neopythagoreans and Stoics

6. Gnostics, Chaldaeans and Indians

VII. Tracing Porphyry's Ideas in Later Authors

1. The western tradition

2. Arnobius and Cornelius Labeo

3. Ambrose

4. Augustine

5. Others

6. Influence and transmission in the East