Πρόκλος

Proclus

Translated by Ronald Allen1 Aug 2008Vetting: high6 revisions

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The one surnamed Prokleios; son of Themesion,1 of Laodikeia in Syria,2 a hierophant. He wrote a Theology, On the myth of Pandora in Hesiod,3 On the [sc. Pythagorean] golden verses, On the Introduction to arithmetic of Nicomachus;4 and some other geometrical works.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πρόκλος, ὁ Προκλήϊος χρηματίσας, Θεμεσίωνος, Λαοδικείας τῆς Συρίας, ἱεροφάντης. ἔγραψε Θεολογίαν, Εἰς τὸν παρ' Ἡσιόδῳ τῆς Πανδώρας μῦθον, Εἰς τὰ χρυσᾶ ἔπη, Εἰς τὴν Νικομάχου Εἰσαγωγὴν τὴν ἀριθμητικήν· καὶ ἄλλα τινὰ γεωμετρικά.

Betacode
*pro/klos, o( *proklh/i+os xrhmati/sas, *qemesi/wnos, *laodikei/as th=s *suri/as, i(erofa/nths. e)/graye *qeologi/an, *ei)s to\n par' *(hsio/dw| th=s *pandw/ras mu=qon, *ei)s ta\ xrusa= e)/ph, *ei)s th\n *nikoma/xou *ei)sagwgh\n th\n a)riqmhtikh/n: kai\ a)/lla tina\ gewmetrika/.

Notes (4)

  1. This Proclus is to be distinguished from homonyms at pi 2470, pi 2471, pi 2473 (OCD(4) s.v.), and pi 2474. When the Syrian philosopher lived is uncertain -- perhaps in the 4th or 5th centuries CE (PLRE, s.v. Proclus).
  2. 1The ms. versions of this name are Themesion and Themision. Bernhardy emended to Themistion or Themison. ↩
  3. 2The ancient Syrian city of Laodikeia is on the Mediterranean coast, the site of present-day Beirut, Lebanon; see Barrington Atlas map 69 grid C2. The Suda mentions Laodikeia or Laodikeians elsewhere (lambda 54, lambda 854, phi 768), but it is uncertain whether these refer to the Syrian coastal city; cf. OCD(4) s.v. Berytus. ↩
  4. 3Proclus' commentary is lost. The Pandora myth is at Hesiod, Works and Days 60-105 (web address 1), and Theogony 560-612 (web address 2). ↩
  5. 4Nicomachus (fl. ca. 100 CE) was a Neopythagorean mathematician with Platonist inclinations (O'Meara, pp. 14-23), pursuing musicology, and living in Gerasa (OCD(4) s.v. and Barrington Atlas map 69 grid C5), present-day Jerash, Jordan; OCD(4) s.v. Nicomachus(3). The Introduction is available in English translation (D'Ooge). ↩

References


A.H.M. Jones, J.R. Martindale, and J. Morris, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. I, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971
D.J. O'Meara, Pythagoras Revived: Mathematics and Philosophy in Late Antiquity, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989
Nicomachus of Gerasa, Introduction to Arithmetic, trans. M.L. D'Ooge, New York: Macmillan, 1926

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π2470ΠρόκλοςProclus, Proklosπ2471ΠρόκλοςProclus, Proklosπ2472ΠρόκλοςProclusπ2473ΠρόκλοςProclus, Proklosπ2474ΠρόκλοςProklos, Proclus
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  1. coding, tweaked links — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. typo and other cosmetics — David Whitehead
  5. cosmetics — David Whitehead
  6. augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
  7. Translated — Ronald Allen

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