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INTERPRETING PROCLUS

This is the rst book to provide an account of the inuence of Proclus,a member of the Athenian Neoplatonic School, during more than

one thousand years of European history (c .

). Proclus wasthe most important philosopher of late antiquity, a dominant (albeitcontroversial) voice in Byzantine thought, the second most inuentialGreek philosopher in the later western Middle Ages (after Aristotle),and a major gure (together with Plotinus) in the revival of Greek philosophy in the Renaissance. Proclus was also intensively studiedin the Islamic world of the Middle Ages and was a major inuenceon the thought of medieval Georgia. The volume begins with a sub-stantial essay by the editor summarizing the entire history of Proclusreception. This is followed by chapters by more than a dozen of the

worlds leading authorities in the various specic areas covered.s t ephen ge r sh is Professor of Medieval Studies and ConcurrentProfessor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. Specializing in the Platonic tradition, he is the author of numerous monographs onancient, medieval, and modern philosophy of which the most recentare Reading Plato Tracing Plato ( ); Neoplatonism after Derrida:Parallelograms ( ); and Being Different: More Neoplatonism after Derrida ( ). He has edited, among other books, Medieval and Renaissance Humanism:Realism, Representation, andReform(with Bert

Roest, ); and Eriugena, Berkeley, and the Idealist Tradition (withDermot Moran, ).

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INTERPRETING PROCLUSFrom Antiquity to the Renaissance

edited by

STEPHEN GERSH

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Contents

List of contributors page viiNote on editions and translations of Proclus works viii

Onethousand years of Proclus: an introduction to his reception Stephen Gersh

part i proclus

Proclus life, works, and education of the soul Lucas Siorvanes

Proclus as exegete Anne Sheppard

Proclus as theologian Stephen Gersh

part ii the influence of proclus

ii.1 Late antiquity

Dionysius the Areopagite John M. Dillon

Excursus a Damascius and Boethius Stephen Gersh

ii.2 Medieval Islamic philosophy

The Liber de causis Cristina DAncona

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ii.3 Medieval Byzantine philosophy

Michael Psellos Dominic J. OMeara

Eleventh- to twelfth-century Byzantium Michele Trizio

Excursus a George Gemistos Plethon Stephen Gersh

ii.4 Medieval Georgian philosophy

Ioane Petritsi Lela Alexidze

ii.5 Medieval Western philosophy

William of Moerbeke, translator of Proclus Carlos Steel

The University of Paris in the thirteenth century Pasquale Porro

Dietrich of Freiberg and Berthold of Moosburg

Markus F uhrer and Stephen Gersh Nicholas of Cusa

Stephen Gersh

ii.6 The Renaissance

Marsilio Ficino Michael J. B. Allen

Francesco Patrizi Thomas Leinkauf

Index of names Index of subjects

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Contributors

lela alexidze, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia

michael j. b. allen, University of California, Los Angeles

cristina dancona, Universita degli Studi di Pisa

john m. di llon, Trinity College Dublin

markus f uhrer, Augsburg College

stephen gersh, University of Notre Dame

thomas leinkauf, Westf alische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster

dominic j. omeara, University of Fribourg pasquale porro, Universite de Paris-Sorbonne

anne sheppard, Royal Holloway, University of London

lucas siorvanes, Kings College London

carlos steel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

michele trizio, Universita degli Studi di Bari

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Note on editions and translations of Proclus works

In this volume, the writings of Proclus are cited according to the editionsand using the abbreviations noted in the following list. This list also notes

the English translations that are currently available. Items marked with anasterisk * include translations into French.De aeternitate mundi , fragments in Philoponus, De aeternitate mundi contra

Proclum, edited by H. Rabe, Leipzig .On the Eternity of the World , introduction, translation, and commentary by

H. S. Lang and A. D. Macro, Berkeley and Los Angeles .De arte sacricali , in Catalogue des manuscrits alchimiques grecs , vol. vi, edited by

J. Bidez, Brussels (= De arte sacr.).On the Priestly Art according to the Greeks , translated by B. Copenhaver, in

I. Merkel and A. G. Debus (eds.),Hermeticism andtheRenaissance, Intellectual History and the Occult in Early Modern Europe , Washington, DC and London, .

De philosophia chaldaica (Eclogae) in *Oracles chalda ques, avec un choix de com-mentaires anciens , edited by E. des Places, Paris , (= De phil.chald.).

Elementatio theologica , The Elements of Theology, A Revised Text with Translation,Introduction, and Commentary , edited by E. R. Dodds, Oxford ; secondedition, Oxford (= El. theol.).

Hymni , edited by E. Vogt, Wiesbaden (= Hymn.).

Translated by R. M. van den Berg, in Proclus Hymns, Essays, Translations,Commentary , Leiden .*In primum Alcibiadem, edited by A.-Ph. Segonds, vols., Paris (= In

Alc.).Proclus, Alcibiades I , translation and commentary by W. ONeill, The Hague

.In Platonis Cratylum commentaria , edited by G. Pasquali, Leipzig (= In

Crat. ).On Platos Cratylus , translated by B. M. Duvick, Ithaca, NY .

In primum Euclidis Elementorum librum commentarii , edited by G. Friedlein,Leipzig (= In Eucl.).

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Editions and translations of Proclus works ix

A Commentary on the First Book of Euclids Elements , translation, introduction,and notes by G. R. Morrow, Princeton .

In Platonis Parmenidem commentaria , edited by C. Steel, vols., Oxford (= In Parm. ).

*Commentaire sur le Parm enide de Platon, edited byC. Luna and A.-Ph. Segonds,Paris .Commentaire sur le Parm enide de Platon, traduction de Guillaume de Moerbeke ,

edited by C. Steel, vols., Leuven and Leiden .Commentary on Platos Parmenides , translation, introduction, and notes by

G. R. Morrow and J. M. Dillon, Princeton .In Platonis Rem Publicam commentarii , edited by W. Kroll, vols., Leipzig

(= In Remp.).In Platonis Timaeum commentaria , edited by E. Diehl, vols., Leipzig

(= In Tim.).Commentary on Platos Timaeus , translated by D. Baltzly, H. Tarrant, D. T.

Runia, and M. Share, Cambridge *Theologia Platonica , Th eologie platonicienne , edited by H.-D. Saffrey and L. G.

Westerink, vols., Paris (= Theol. Plat.).Translated by T. Taylor, London . Reprinted Kew Gardens, NY .

Tria opuscula :*Decem dubitationes circa providentiam, Dix probl emes concernant la providence , in

Trois Etudes sur la Providence , vol. i, edited by D. Isaac, Paris (= De dec. dub.).

Ten Doubts concerning Providence and a Solution of Those Doubts; and On the Subsistence of Evil , translated by T. Taylor, London . Reprinted Chicago

.*De malorum subsistentia , De lexistence du mal , in Trois Etudes , vol. iii , edited by

D. Isaac, Paris (= De mal. sub.).On the Existence of Evils , translated by J. Opsomer and C. Steel, Ithaca , NY

.*De providentia et fato, Providence, fatalit e, libert e , in Trois Etudes , vol. ii, edited

by D. Isaac, Paris (= De prov.).On Providence , translated by C. Steel, Ithaca, NY .