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Headword:
*pro/klos
Adler number: pi,2472
Translated headword: Proclus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: 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:*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:
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).
[1] The ms. versions of this name are Themesion and Themision. Bernhardy emended to Themistion or Themison.
[2] The 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.
[3]
Proclus' commentary is lost. The Pandora myth is at Hesiod,
Works and Days 60-105 (web address 1), and
Theogony 560-612 (web address 2).
[4]
Nicomachus (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
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; chronology; geography; mathematics; meter and music; mythology; philosophy; poetry; religion; women
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 1 August 2008@02:53:10.
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