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I N T ERPRETI N G PROCLU S
From Antiquity to the Renaissance
edited by
STEPHEN GERSH
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Contents
List of contributors
Note on editions and translations of Proclus works
One thousand years of Proclus: an introduction to his reception
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Stephen Gersh
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part i proclus
1 Proclus life, works, and education of the soul
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Lucas Siorvanes
2 Proclus as exegete
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Anne Sheppard
3 Proclus as theologian
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Stephen Gersh
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John M. Dillon
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Stephen Gersh
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Cristina DAncona
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Contents
ii.3 Medieval Byzantine philosophy
6 Michael Psellos
165
Dominic J. OMeara
182
Michele Trizio
216
Stephen Gersh
229
Lela Alexidze
247
Carlos Steel
264
Pasquale Porro
299
12 Nicholas of Cusa
318
Stephen Gersh
353
Michael J. B. Allen
14 Francesco Patrizi
380
Thomas Leinkauf
Index of names
Index of subjects
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Contributors
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In this volume, the writings of Proclus are cited according to the editions
and using the abbreviations noted in the following list. This list also notes
the English translations that are currently available. Items marked with an
asterisk * include translations into French.
De aeternitate mundi, fragments in Philoponus, De aeternitate mundi contra
Proclum, edited by H. Rabe, Leipzig 1899.
On the Eternity of the World, introduction, translation, and commentary by
H. S. Lang and A. D. Macro, Berkeley and Los Angeles 2001.
De arte sacrificali, in Catalogue des manuscrits alchimiques grecs, vol. vi, edited by
J. Bidez, Brussels 1928 (= De arte sacr.).
On the Priestly Art according to the Greeks, translated by B. Copenhaver, in
I. Merkel and A. G. Debus (eds.), Hermeticism and the Renaissance, Intellectual
History and the Occult in Early Modern Europe, Washington, DC and London
1988, 103105.
De philosophia chaldaica (Eclogae) in *Oracles chaldaques, avec un choix de com des Places, Paris 1971, 205212 (= De phil.
mentaires anciens, edited by E.
chald.).
Elementatio theologica, The Elements of Theology, A Revised Text with Translation,
Introduction, and Commentary, edited by E. R. Dodds, Oxford 1933; second
edition, Oxford 1963 (= El. theol.).
Hymni, edited by E. Vogt, Wiesbaden 1957 (= Hymn.).
Translated by R. M. van den Berg, in Proclus Hymns, Essays, Translations,
Commentary, Leiden 2001.
*In primum Alcibiadem, edited by A.-Ph. Segonds, 2 vols., Paris 19851986 (= In
Alc.).
Proclus, Alcibiades I, translation and commentary by W. ONeill, The Hague
1965.
In Platonis Cratylum commentaria, edited by G. Pasquali, Leipzig 1908 (= In
Crat.).
On Platos Cratylus, translated by B. M. Duvick, Ithaca, NY 2007.
In primum Euclidis Elementorum librum commentarii, edited by G. Friedlein,
Leipzig 1873 (= In Eucl.).
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Trois Etudes
sur la Providence, vol. i, edited by D. Isaac, Paris 1977 (= De
dec. dub.).
Ten Doubts concerning Providence and a Solution of Those Doubts; and On the
Subsistence of Evil, translated by T. Taylor, London 1833. Reprinted Chicago
1980.
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