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:

  • 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
This article is about a priest and philosopher from Laodicea. For other people named Proculeius, see Proculeia gens.

He is also mentioned by Damascius in a commentary on Plato.

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), this is disputed, and a more widely accepted theory is that the commentary is instead by Proclus Diadochus.

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