ABSTRACT
Proclus’ biographer, Marinus, tells the reader that in Proclus’ fortieth year he awoke from an inspired dream shouting aloud these verses. Proclus was such an exceptional student that he worked through the neo-Platonic sequence of studies in record time. Proclus’ writings can be divided into roughly three sorts. First the people have some of the commentaries that he wrote on the dialogues of Plato. In addition to commentaries on Plato’s works, Proclus was the author of several monographs. Proclus’ philosophy is a detailed elaboration of a hierarchically ordered metaphysics like the one found in the work of Plotinus. However in the details of the One’s unfolding of the rest of reality, Proclus complicates and corrects Plotinus’ picture of things. Near the temple of Asclepius on the southern side of the Acropolis is a large structure that some archaeologists believe to be the house used by Syrianus, Proclus and the members of the neo-Platonic school.
