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

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 [nl]), this is disputed, and a more widely accepted theory is that the commentary is instead by Proclus Diadochus.^[2]

See also

• Proculeia gens