Continuation of the commentary on the problems posed for proof by Euclid. Proclus, one of the last great thinkers of Neoplatonic philosophy and ancient Greek philosophical thought in general, was born in Constantinople on February 8, 412 AD. Coming from a wealthy family from Lycia, he studied at the best educational centers of his time, Alexandria, Constantinople, and Athens.
In Athens, he came into contact with the Athenian Neoplatonic Academy, which definitively captivated him, and he became its director after the death of his teacher, Syrianus. He died in Athens on April 17, 485 AD, and was buried near Lycabettus.
Living in an era of syncretistic chaos, he would compose a unified and complex system of the entire preceding Neoplatonic philosophical tradition, influenced by Pythagorean, Aristotelian, and Stoic elements. In his system, he would gather the one god, the intelligible and the intellectual substances, magic, and various beings of a demonic character, and in this form, he would pass it on to the scholastic Middle Ages.
His work is a primary source for any scholar of Neoplatonic philosophy, as well as for Plato himself, for whom he often proposes original and extremely interesting interpretations.
