Summary
Proclus (Greek: Πρόκλος) or Proculeius, son of the physician Themison, was a hierophant at Laodiceia in Syria. He wrote, according to the Suda, the following works:[1]
- On the gods (θεολογία)
- On the myth of Pandora in Hesiod (εἰς τὴν παρ' Ἡσιόδῳ τῆς Πανδώρας μῦθον)
- On golden words (εἰς τὰ χρυσᾶ ἔπη)
- On Nicomachus' introduction to number theory (εἰς τὴν Νικομάχου εἰσαγωγὴν τῆς ἀριθμητικῆς)
- some geometrical treatises
He is also mentioned by Damascius in a commentary on Plato.[2]
Although a commentary on the Pythagorean Golden Verses, known through a translation into Arabic (in the El Escorial library as manuscript 888) has sometimes been attributed to this Proclus (following a theory promoted by Leendert Gerrit Westerink), this is disputed, and a more widely accepted theory is that the commentary is instead by Proclus Diadochus.[2]
References edit
- ^ "Proclus". Suda On Line Search. Translated by Allen, Ronald. 13 November 2021. Adler number: pi,2472. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
- ^ a b Izdebska, Anna (2019). "The Arabic Commentary on the Golden Verses Attributed to Proclus, and Its Neoplatonic Context". Aither. International Issue No. 6 (22): 4–49. doi:10.5507/aither.2019.005. hdl:21.11116/0000-0007-2DDE-E. S2CID 226880237.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Mason, Charles Peter (1870). "Proclus (Πρόκλος), literary". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 3. p. 533.