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
This article is about a priest and philosopher from Laodicea. For other people named Proculeius, see Proculeia gens.

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
  1. "Proclus". Suda On Line Search. Translated by Allen, Ronald. 13 November 2021. Adler number: pi,2472. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
  2. 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. 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.

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