Author:Thomas Taylor (1758-1835)

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Thomas Taylor
(1758–1835)

Thomas Taylor

Works

• A Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries. Amsterdam [1790].
  • Second edition (1816):
    • Part 1
    • Part 2
• Theoretic Arithmetic (1816)
• The Elements of a new arithmetical notation (1823)

Translations

• Proclus Diadochus. The philosophical and mathematical commentaries (1778–89).
• Sallust On the Gods and the World: and the Pythagoric Sentences of Demophilus, Translated from the Greek; and Five Hymns by Proclus, in the Original Greek, with a Poetical Version. To Which are Added Five Hymns by the Translator. 1793.
• Plato. Works, translated by Sydenham, Floyer, and T. T. 5 vols. 1804.
• Aristoteles. Works translated and illustrated with copious elucidations. 10 vols. 1806–12.
• Proclus Diadochus. The Six Books of Proclus, the Platonic Successor, on the Theology of Plato. 1816.
• Select works of Plotinus translated. 1817. New edn. 1895.
• Iamblichus. On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians. Chiswick, 1821. (transcription project)
• Political fragments of Archytas and other ancient Pythagoreans. Chiswick, 1822.
• The Metamorphosis, or, Golden Ass and philosophical works of Apuleius. 1822.
• Select works of Porphyrius. 1823.
• Pausanias, The description of Greece (Taylor). New edn. 1824.
• The mystical hymns of Orpheus. New edn. 1896.
• The Dissertations of Maximus Tyrius. 1804
• Works of Plato his first fifty-five dialogues by Plato (1804), translated with Floyer Sydenham

Works about Taylor

• Thomas Taylor, The Platonist, by William Edward Armytage Axon (1890)
• "Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Taylor, Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.