Biography:Proclus of Laodicea

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Proclus (Greek: Πρόκλος) or Proculeius, son of the physician Themison. Was hierophant at Laodiceia in Syria. He wrote, according to the Suda, the following works:

  • 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

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainMason, Charles Peter (1870). "Proclus (Πρόκλος), literary". in Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 3. p. 533.