About Proclus of Laodicea
Proclus of Laodicea was a writer.
Proclus 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
He is also mentioned by Damascius in a commentary on Plato.
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