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PROCLUS, or PROCULUS (A.D. 410-485) , the chief
II PROCOPIUS brought up at Xanthus in Lycia. Having studied grammar under Orion and philosophy under Olympiodorus the Peripatetic, at Alexandria, he proceeded to Athens. There he attended the lectures of the Neoplatonists Plutarch and Syrianus, and about 450 succeeded the latter in the chair of philosophy (hence his surname Diadochus, which, however, is referred by others to his being the " successor " of Plato). As an ardent upholder of the old pagan
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His great literary activity was chiefly devoted to the elucidation of the writings of Plato. There are still extant commentaries on the First Alcibiades, Parmenides, Republic, Timaeus and Cratylus. His views are more fully expounded in the IIEpi rits Kara HAaTwva OeoXoyias (In Platonis theologiam). The FTOLXELWOLS BE0AOyuK17 (Institutio theologica) contains a compendious account of the principles of Neoplatonism and the modifications introduced in it by Proclus himself. The pseudo-Aristotelian De causis is an Arabic extract from this work, ascribed to Alfarabius (d. 950), circulated in the west by means of a Latin translation (ed. O. Bardenhewer, Freiburg, 1882). It was answered by the Christian rhetorician Procopius of Gaza in a treatise which was deliberately appropriated without acknowledgment by Nicolaus of Methone, a Byzantine theologian of the 12th century (see W. Christ, Gesch. der griechischen Litteratur, 1898, 692). Other philosophical works by Proclus are Th o xELWOIc (Pima?) Tl IIEpi KLV~70"EWS (Institutio physica sive De motu, a compendium of the last five books of Aristotle's HEpi ebuau d c aKpoaaecss, De physica auscultatione), and De providentia et fato, Decem dubitaliones circa providentiam, De malorum subsistentia, known only by the Latin translation of William of Moerbeke (archbishop of Corinth, 1277-1281), who also translated the XTOLXELwoLS OEOXO'yLKit into Latin. In addition to the epitaph already mentioned, Proclus was the author of hymns, seven of which have been preserved (to Helios, Aphrodite, the Muses, the Gods, the Lycian Aphrodite, Hecate and Janus, and Athena), and of an epigram in the Greek Anthology
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Ptolemy
His grammatical works are: a commentary on the Works and Days of Hesiod (incomplete); some scholia on Homer; an elementary treatise on the epistolary style, HEpL brurroXtuaiov XapaKTiipos (Characteres epistolici), attributed in some MSS. to Libanius. The X pforoisaOta ypapparu d by a Proclus, who is identified by Suidas with the Neoplatonist, is probably the work of a grammarian of the 2nd or 3rd century, though Wilamowitz-Mbllendorff (Philolog. Untersuch. vii.; supported by O. Immisch in Festschrift Th. Gomperz, pp. 237-274) agrees with Suidas. According to Suidas, he was also the author of 'ErrLXElpitara Lit Kara XptcrrlavCv (Animadversiones duodeviginti in christianos). This work, identified by W. Christ with the Institutio theologica, was answered by Joannes Philoponus (7th century) in his De aeternitate mundi. Some of his commentary on the Chaldaean oracles (AbyLa XaXSaiKa) has been discovered in modern times. There is no complete edition of the works of Proclus. The selection of V. Cousin (Paris, 1864) contains the treatises De providentia et fato, Decem dubitaliones, and De malorum subsistentia, the commentaries on the Alcibiades and Parmenides. The Institutio theologica has been edited by G. F. Creuzer in the Didot edition of Plotinus (Paris, 1855); the In Platonis theologiam has not been reprinted since 1618, when it was published by Aemilius Portus with a Latin translation. Most recent
A. Westermann (1856), Scholia to Hesiod in E. Vollbehr's edition (1844). Thomas Taylor, the " Platonist," translated the commentaries on the Timaeus and Euclid, The Theology of Plato, the Elements of Theology, and the three Latin treatises. On Proclus generally and his works see article in Suidas; Marinus, Vita Procli; J. A. Fabricius, Bibliotheca graeca (ed. Harles), ix. 363445; W. Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur (1898), 623; J. E. Sandys, Hist. of Classical Scholarship (1906), i. 372; J. B. Bury, Later Roman Empire (1889), i. 13, where Proclus is styled the " Hegel of Neoplatonism " ; on his philosophy, T. Whittaker, The Neo-Platonists (1901), and NEOPLATONISM.Extracts from the Rpnoro,aaOia are preserved in Photius (Cod. 239), almost the only source of information regarding the epic cycle; on the question of authorship, see Christ 637, and Sandys, p. 379; also D. B. Monro's appendix to his ed. of Homer's Odyssey, xiii.xxiv. (1901). End of Article: PROCLUS, or PROCULUS (A.D. 410-485) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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