Proclus of Laodicea

Proclus (Greek: Πρόκλος) or Proculeius, son of the physician Themison. Was 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

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Mason, Charles Peter (1870). "Proclus (Πρόκλος), literary". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 3. p. 533.

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