Proclus Diadochus

Dietmar Herrmann ()

Chapter Chapter 24 in Ancient Mathematics, 2022, pp 401-406 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract But this is mathematics: it reminds you of the invisible forms of the soul; it gives birth to its own discoveries; it awakens the spirit and purifies the intellect; it illuminates the ideas that are inherent in us; it destroys the forgetfulness and the oblivion and the unawareness that comes to us with birth (Proclus). Proclus (411–485 AD) was born in Byzantium. He was supposed to become a jurist like his father Patricius. He studied rhetoric and jurisprudence in Xanthus (Lycia) and later in Alexandria. At the request of the Roman governor Theodorus, the young Proclus accompanied the scholar Leonas of Isauria to Byzantium. The meeting at the court of Byzantium with the Empress Eudocia and her father Leontios awakened in him the desire to devote himself to philosophy.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-66494-0_24

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