412–485 CE · Platonist philosopher
Proclus
Πρόκλος
Known · AttestedWorked in Alexandria.
In Alexandria: c. 425–430 CE
Studied rhetoric and then philosophy in Alexandria as a young man, his biographer Marinus says, before going to Athens, where he headed the Platonic school for half a century. His commentary on Euclid is the source of the "royal road".
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Moments
- c. 425–430 CE · Proclus studies in Alexandria Known: attested
- 529 CE · Philoponus argues that the world had a beginning Known: attested
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Sources (2)
- Marinus, Life of Proclus 8–10
- E. J. Watts, City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006)