Includes Sallust on the Gods and the World, Pythagoric Sentences of Demophilus, Emperor Julians Oration to the Sovereign Sun and Oration to the Mother of the Gods, Ocellus Lucanus on the Nature of the Universe and on Laws, Taurus on the Eternity of the World, Julius Firmicus Maternus on the Mundi Thema, Select Theorems of Proclus on the Perpetuity of Time, Synesius on Providence, with essays and introductions by Thomas Taylor. The Neoplatonist Thomas Taylor (1758-1835) was the first person to translate into English the complete works of the Greek philosophers Aristotle and Plato, as well as others. Published by the Prometheus Trust in their Thomas Taylor series. First thus, 1994. Volume IV in the Thomas Taylor series, but this subject is complete in one volume. Hardcover in purple cloth with gilt titles on spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Like new.