Porphyry's On Abstinence

Name: Porphyry's On Abstinence
Author: Porphyry

by Porphyry · translated by Julian K. Morrow

A new English translation, made directly from the original language.

Porphyry's four-book case against eating animals, the ancient world's most complete argument for a bloodless table, translated fresh from the Greek.

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