Interpreting Proclus: From Antiquity to the Renaissance

Cambridge University Press, 9/15/2014
EAN 9780521198493, ISBN10: 0521198496

Hardcover, 417 pages, 23.5 x 16.8 x 2.7 cm
Language: English

This is the first book to provide an account of the influence of Proclus, a member of the Athenian Neoplatonic School, during more than one thousand years of European history (c.500–1600). Proclus was the most important philosopher of late antiquity, a dominant (albeit controversial) voice in Byzantine thought, the second most influential Greek philosopher in the later western Middle Ages (after Aristotle), and a major figure (together with Plotinus) in the revival of Greek philosophy in the Renaissance. Proclus was also intensively studied in the Islamic world of the Middle Ages and was a major influence on the thought of medieval Georgia. The volume begins with a substantial essay by the editor summarizing the entire history of Proclus' reception. This is followed by the essays of more than a dozen of the world's leading authorities in the various specific areas covered.

One thousand years of Proclus
an introduction to his reception Stephen Gersh
1. Proclus' life, works, and education of the soul Lucas Siorvanes
2. Proclus as exegete Anne Sheppard
3. Proclus as theologian Stephen Gersh
4. 'Dionysius the Areopagite' John M. Dillon
5. The Book of Causes Cristina d'Ancona
6. Michael Psellos Dominic J. O'Meara
7. Eleventh- to twelfth-century Byzantium Michele Trizio
8. Ioane Petritsi Lela Alexidze
9. William of Moerbeke, translator of Proclus Carlos Steel
10. The University of Paris in the thirteenth century Pasquale Porro
11. Dietrich of Freiberg and Berthold of Moosburg Markus Führer and Stephen Gersh
12. Nicholas of Cusa Stephen Gersh
13. Marsilio Ficino Michael J. B. Allen
14. Francesco Patrizi da Cherso Thomas Leinkauf.