Proclus of Laodicea

This article is about a priest and philosopher from Laodicea. For other people named Proculeius, see Proculeia gens.

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. Vol. 3. p. 533.