THE LIFE OF PROCLUS,

Proclus the Lycian, a student of Syrianus, a hearer of Plutarch the son of Nestorius the Philosopher, was himself a Platonic philosopher. He presided over the Philosophical School at Athens. Marinus of Neapolis is reported to have been his student and successor. He wrote very many philosophical and grammatical works. Commentaries on the whole of Homer. Commentaries on Hesiod’s Works and Days. On the method of learning good and useful things, three books. On education, two. On Plato’s Republic, four books. On the theology of Orpheus. On the agreement of Orpheus, Pythagoras, and Plato. On the Oracles, ten books. On the Homeric gods. Eighteen arguments against the Christians. This is that Proclus who, as the second after Porphyry, sharpened his impure and abusive tongue against the Christians. Against him wrote John, surnamed Philoponus, refuting those eighteen arguments in a truly marvelous manner, while simultaneously showing him to be ignorant of that Greek learning in which he boasted himself. Proclus wrote the Metroacum book, and whoever takes it into his hands will see that he did not publish all that theology without divine inspiration, so that the ear is no longer troubled by discordant lamentations.