Biography:Proclus of Laodicea
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 (nl)), this is disputed, and a more widely accepted theory is that the commentary is instead by Proclus Diadochus.[2]
See also
- Proculeia gens
References
- ↑ "Proclus". Suda On Line Search. 13 November 2021. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/pi/2472.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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. https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_3257389/component/file_3283729/content.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Mason, Charles Peter (1870). "Proclus (Πρόκλος), literary". in Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 3. p. 533.
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