Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism sources

I'm about to start reading up on Middle Platonism and intend to follow with Neoplatonism. What are some suggested books and sources in translation for this? I figure John Dillon's The Middle Platonists: 80 B.C. to A.D. 220 will make a good starting point but would like to know what else to look for. Thanks.

EDIT: BTW, I think this thread works better as a source of general information but if anyone wants to know the specifics of why I'm looking into this you can take a look at this blog post: http://medievalhistorygeek.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/lets-philosophize-time-to-ge...

I know more about the later stages and the primary sources, so here's what I would go for:

The classic Stephen McKenna translation of Plotinus' Enneads was reissued by Larson Publications in 1992 with all new notes and a great set of explanatory appendices.

The excellent E. R. Dodds edition/translation of Proclus' The Elements of Theology is available from Oxford's Clarendon Paperbacks imprint.

(I was lucky enough to get to read these in grad school with what amounts to a living commentary in the form of Stephen Gersh.)

''Apulieus,…. , is undoubtedly the greatest of the ancient Latin Platonists, a portion of whose writings have been preserved to the present time; and though, in consequence of living at a period in which the depths of the Platonic philosophy had not been fathomed, and its mysteries luminously unfolded, as they afterwards were by certain Coryphæan Greeks, he is not to be classed among the chief of the disciples of Plato, yet he will always maintain a very distinguished rank among those who have delivered to us the more accessible parts of that philosophy with consummate eloquence, and an inimitable splendor of diction.''
THE GOLDEN ASS (METAMORPHOSES) OF APULEIUS TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL LATIN, BY THOMAS TAYLOR

Apuleius (2011-10-20). The Golden Ass (Metamorphoses) (Kindle Locations 3-7). Neeland Media LLC. Kindle Edition.
'The enemies of Christianity,' says Augustine (Ep. 138), 'venture to place Apuleius and Apollonius of Tyana on the same or even a higher level than Christ.' But in the same letter he speaks of him as a 'great orator' whose fame still lives among his fellow countrymen of Africa. Above all the Golden Ass has kept his name alive to our own day. Even those who know nothing of the work as a whole, or who would relegate it to obscurity for its occasional gross indecency, know and love the story of Cupid and Psyche, if not in the original at least in many a work of art, and in the pages of La Fontaine, Walter Pater, or William Morris.

Apuleius, Lucius (2012-05-16). The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura (Kindle Locations 127-133). . Kindle Edition.

I could point you to my undergraduate thesis, "The Creator-God in the Philosophies of Albinus and Numenius", but unfortunately it, along with Cicero's Hortensius, lies buried in the sands of oblivion. As it deserves to lie, though the Hortensius does not.

How about this:

The Philosophy of the Commentators

This volume is on metaphysics, there's another volume on psychology and one on physics by the same author/editor. I've reviewed all of them here on LibraryThing.

Augustine, in his City of God has called Apuleius both a "Platonist" and a "magician of note."

Facing a wizard's death in Second century Roman Africa, Apulieus raised a still classic defense:

"I should therefore like to ask his most learned advocates how, precisely, they would define a magician. If what I read in a large number of authors be true, namely, that magician is the Persian word for priest, what is there criminal in being a priest and having due knowledge, science, and skill in all ceremonial law, sacrificial duties, and the binding rules of religion, at least if magic consists in that which Plato sets forth in his description of the methods employed by the Persians in the education of their young princes? I remember the very words of that divine philosopher.

Let me recall them to your memory,

Maximus: 'When the boy has reached the age of fourteen he is handed over to the care of men known as the Royal Masters. They are four in number, and are chosen as being the best of the elders of Persia, one the wisest, another the justest, a third the most temperate, a fourth the bravest. And one of these teaches the boy the magic of Zoroaster the son of Oromazes; and this magic is no other than the worship of the gods. He also teaches him the arts of kingship.'

26. Do you hear, you who so rashly accuse the art of magic? It is an art acceptable to the immortal gods, full of all knowledge of worship and of prayer, full of piety and wisdom in things divine, full of honour and glory since the day when Zoroaster and Oromazes established it, high-priestess of the powers of heaven. Nay, it is one of the first elements of princely instruction, nor do they lightly admit any chance person to be a magician, any more than they would admit him to be a king."

Apuleius, Lucius (2012-05-16). The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura (Kindle Locations 587-599). . Kindle Edition.

>5 thcson: Thank you. That looks useful

>2 nathanielcampbell: I have an abridged Penguin edition of Enneads (MacKenna translation) which I'm hoping is enough for my purposes. Not sure I want to read the whole thing. I'll save Proclus for when I get back to the 5th century but figuring out how long classical thought remained prominent in the East is something I'm interested in and I'm sure he'll figure prominently. Thanks.