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Porphyry: To Gaurus on How Embryos Are Ensouled and on What Is in Our Power

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Porphyry: To Gaurus on How Embryos Are Ensouled and on What Is in Our Power - Porphyry, and Wilberding, James (Translated by), and Griffin, Michael (Editor)
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Concerning embryos, Porphyry takes an original view on issues that had been left undecided by his teacher Plotinus and earlier by the doctor Galen. What role is played in the development of the embryo by the souls or the natures of the father, of the mother, of the embryo, or of the whole world?

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Porphyry: To Gaurus on How Embryos Are Ensouled and on What Is in Our Power 2014, Bloomsbury Academic, New York

ISBN-13: 9781472557872

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Porphyry: To Gaurus on How Embryos Are Ensouled and on What Is in Our Power 2011, Bristol Classical Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780715638583

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