Proclus

Proclus in Wikipedia

Proclus Lycaeus (8 February 412 – 17 April 485 AD), called "The Successor" or "Diadochos" (Greek Πρόκλος ὁ Διάδοχος Próklos ho Diádokhos), was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, one of the last major Classical philosophers (see Damascius). He set forth one of the most elaborate and fully developed systems of Neoplatonism. He stands near the end of t...

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Proclus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Πρόκλος). The most important representative of the later Neo-Platonic School, born A.D. 412 at Byzantium. He received his first instruction at Xanthus, in Lycia, and betook himself to Alexandria to complete his education. There he attached himself chiefly to Heron, the mathematician, and to the Aristotelian Olympiodorus. Before the age of twenty, ...

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