Proclus - Proclus Proclus Lycaeus surnamed "The successor" (Πρoκλoς o διαδoχoς). Greek Neoplatonist Philosopher (February 8, 412 - April 17, 487). Born to a rich family in Constantinople, he studied rhetoric, philosophy and mathematics in Alexandria of Egypt. He came back to Constantinopole and was a successful lawyer for a short time. However as he preferred philosophy, he went to Athens in 431 to study at the famous School of Philosophy which was founded 800 years before by Plato. He lived in Athens until the end of his life, except for a one year exile due to his political-philosophical activity which was not tolerated by the Christian regime. He became head master of Athens' School of Philosophy. His work can be divided in two parts. In the first.
Proclus of Constantinople - Proclus of Constantinople Saint Proclus (d. July 446) was a patriarch of Constantinople. The friend and disciple of John Chrysostom, he became secretary to Patriarch Atticus of Constantinople. who ordained him deacon and priest. Sisinnius, the successor of Atticus, consecrated him bishop of Cyzicus but the people there refused to receive him, and he remained at Constantinople. On the death of Sisinnius, the famous Nestorius succeeded, and early in 429, on a festival of Virgin Mary, Proclus preached the celebrated sermon on the Incarnation inserted in the beginning of the Acts of the council of Ephesus. When Maximianus died on the Thursday before Easter in 434, Proclus was immediately enthroned by the permission of Theodosius and the bishops at Constantinople. His first care was the funeral.
John Bainbridge - by him at Oxford; Bainbridge was incorporated of Merton College and became, in 1631 and 1635 respectively, junior and senior reader of Linacre's lectures. He died at Oxford on the November 3, 1643. He wrote An Astronomical Description of the late Comet (1619); Canicularia (1648); and translated Proclus' De Sphaera, and Ptolemy's De Planetarum Hypothesibus (1620). Several manuscript works by him exist in the library of Trinity College, Dublin..
Ibas - independent judgment, and free from partisanship. In the letter, Nestorius is severely censured for refusing the title Theotokos to the Virgin Mary, and Ibas accuses Cyril of Apollinarianism, and denounces the heresy of his 12 chapters, charging him with maintaining the perfect identity of the manhood and Godhead in Christ, and denying the Catholic doctrine of the union of two Natures in One Person (Labbe, iv. 661, v. 510). When Rabbulas died in 435 or 436, Ibas was elected his successor. This was distasteful to those who held the strong anti-Nestorian views of their late bishop, and they speedily planned to secure his deposition, by spreading charges against him of openly preaching heretical doctrines. The accusations soon reached the ears of Theodosius II and Proclus, patriarch of Constantinople. To Proclus the.
Victor Cousin - thought Hegel not particularly amiable, but the two became friends. The following year Cousin went to Munich, where he met Schelling for the first time, and spent a month with him and Jacobi, obtaining a deeper insight into the Philosophy of Nature. France's political troubles interfered for a time with his career. In the events of 1814-1815 he took the royalist side. He adopted the views of the party known as doctrinaire, of which Royer-Collard was the philosophical leader. He seems to have gone further, and to have approached the extreme Left. Then came a reaction against liberalism, and in 1821-1822 Cousin was deprived of his offices in the faculty of letters and in the Normal School. The Normal School was swept away, and Cousin shared the fate of Guizot, who.
Isidore of Alexandria - Alexandria towards the end of the 5th century AD. He became head of the school in Athens in succession to Marinus who followed Proclus. His views alienated the chief members of the school and he was compelled to resign his position to Hegias. He is known principally as the preceptor of Damascius whose testimony to him in the Life of Isidorus presents him in a very favourable light as a man and a thinker. It is generally admitted, however, that he was rather an enthusiast than a thinker; reasoning with him was subsidiary to inspiration, and he preferred the theories of Pythagoras and Plato to the unimaginative logic and the practical ethics of the Stoics and the Aristotelians. He seems to have given loose rein to a sort of theosophical speculation.
History of philosophy - of Megara (450-380 BC), associate of Socrates and founder of the Megarian school. Antisthenes (445-360 BC), companion of Socrates, often associated with the later Cynic movement. Aristippus (435-356 BC), companion of Socrates, traditionally the founder of the Cyrenaic school devoted to hedonism. Plato (429-347 BC), younger associate of Socrates, founder of the Academy, teacher of Aristotle. Xenophon (427-355 BC), historian and philosophical author, famous for his accounts of Socrates. Speusippus (407-339 BC), pupil of Plato who succeeded him as second head of the Academy. Diogenes of Sinope (400-325 BC), Cynic philosopher. Xenocrates (396-314 BC), follower of Plato and third head of the Academy. Aristotle (384-322 BC), pupil of Plato, founder of the Lyceum and the Peripatetic tradition. Arete of Cyrene (fl. 4th cent. BC), daughter of Aristippus and his sucessor as.
Greek philosophy - more details. Aristotle Aristotle, known as Aristoteles in most languages other than English (Aristotele in Italian), (384 BC - March 7, 322 BC) has, along with Plato, the reputation of one of the two most influential philosophers in Western thought. Their works, although connected in many fundamental ways, differ considerably in both style and substance. Plato wrote several dozen philsophical dialogues - arguments in the form of conversations, usually with Socrates as a participant - and a few letters. Though the early dialogues deal mainly with methods of acquiring knowledge, and most of the last ones with justice and practical ethics, his most famous works expressed a synoptic view of ethics, metaphysics, reason, knowledge, and human life. Predominant ideas include the notion that knowledge gained through the senses always remains confused.
Flavian of Constantinople - August 11, 449, Flavian passed away at Hypepe in Lydia from the injuries he received from this attack. When Pulcheria returned to power, after her brother's death, she had Flavian's remains, which had been buried obscurely, brought with great pomp to Constantinople. It was more like a triumph, says the chronicler, than a funeral procession. The council of Chalcedon canonized him as a martyr, and in the Latin Church he is commemorated on February 18. Among the documents which touch on the career of Flavian are the reply of Petrus Chrysologus, archbishop of Ravenna, to a circular appeal of Eutyches, and various letters of Theodoret. Pope Leo I wrote Flavian a beautiful letter before hearing that he was dead. Sources Leo. Mag. Epp. 23, 26, 27, 28, 44; Facund, Pro Trib..
434 - power in Rome for twenty years. Attila the Hun gains control over the Hun tribes, jointly with his brother Bleda. Proclus becomes patriarch of Constantinople. Births Deaths April 12 Maximianus, patriarch of Constantinople.\n.
446 - 448 449 450 451 Events synod held by Turibius of Astorga Births Deaths Proclus, patriarch of Constantinople\n.
Academy - there in approximately 385 BC. This school is usually contrasted with Aristotle's own creation, the Peripatetics. Famous philosophers entrusted with running the Academy include Arcesilaus and Proclus. The emperor Justinian closed the school in AD 529. Its remaining members looked for protection under the rule of Sassanid king Khosrau I. Some members found sanctuary in the pagan stronghold of Harran, and their students contributed the Arab Renaissance. Today Because of the tradition of intellectual brilliance associated with this institution, many groups have chosen to use the word "Academy" in their name. These groups include the Royal Academy of he United Kingdom, the United States Naval Academy, the fictional Starfleet Academy , and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In addition, the generic term "the academy" is sometimes used to.
Ammonius Hermiae - the son of Hermias or Hermeias, a fellow-pupil of Proclus. He taught at Alexandria, and had among his scholars Asclepius, John Philoponus, Damascius and Simplicius. His commentaries on Plato and Ptolemy are lost. Those on Aristotle are all that remain of his reputedly numerous writings. Of the commentaries we have--(1) one on the Isagoge of Porphyry (Venice, 1500 fol.); (2) one on the Categories (Venice, 1503 fol.), the authenticity of which is doubted by Brandis; (3) one on the De Interpretatione (Venice, 1503 fol.). They are printed in Brandis's scholia to Aristotle, forming the fourth volume of the Berlin Aristotle; they are also edited (1891-1899) in A. Busse's Commentaria in Aristot. Graeca. The special section on fate was published separately by J. C. Orelli, ''Alex. Aphrod., Ammonii, et aliorum de Fato.
Ancient philosophy - millennia are basically united in the use of the very method first used by the pre-Socratics. Pre-Socratic philosophers are often very hard to pin down, and it is sometimes very difficult to determine the actual line of argument they used in supporting their particular views. This problem arises not from some defect in the men themselves or in their ideas, but is simply the result of their separation from us in history. While most of these men produced significant texts, we have no complete versions of any of those texts. All we have is quotations by later philosophers, historians, and the occasional textual fragment. Thales Anaximander Pythagoras Heraclitus of Ephesus Xenophanes, Parmenides, and the other Eleatic philosophers Leucippus, Democritus and the other Atomists Protagoras and the Sophists Socrates: Plato: Aristotle: Later.
Arctinus of Miletus - flourished probably about 650 BC. His poems are lost, but an idea of them can be obtained from the Chrestomathy written by Proclus the Neo-Platonist of the 5th century or by a grammarian of the same name who lived in the time of the Antonines. The Aethiopis (Αιθιοπις), in five books, so called from the Aethiopian Memnon, who became the ally of the Trojans after the death of Hector. According to Proclus, he took up the narrative from the close of the Iliad. It begins with the famous deeds and death of the Amazon Penthesileia, and concludes with the death and burial of Achilles and the dispute between Ajax and Odysseus for his arms. The title is only applied to part of the poem. The Sack of Troy gives the stories.
Archons of Athens - 131-132 Claudius Philogenus Visseieus 132-133 Claudius Domitianus Visseieus 133-134 Unknown 134-135 Antisthenes 135-138 Unknown 138-139 Praxagoras Thoricius 139-140 Flavius Alcibiades Paianieus 140-141 Claudius Attalus Sphettius 141-142 Publius Aelius Phileas Meliteus 142-143 Aelius Alexandrus Phalereus 143-144 Publius Aelius Vibullius Rufus 144-145 Syllas 145-146 Flavius Arrianus Paianieus 146-147 Titus Flavius Alcibiades Paeanieus 147-148 Soteles Philippus Estiaeothen 148-149 Lucius Nummius Ieroceryx Phalereus 149-150 Quintus Alleius Epictetus 150-151 Aelius Ardys 151-152 Aelius Callicrates 152-153 Lucius Nummius Menis Phalereus 153-154 Aelius Alexandrus III 154-155 Praxagoras Meliteus 155-156 Popillius Theotimus Sounieus 156-157 Aelius Gelus II 157-158 Lycomedes 158-159 Titus Aurelius Philemon Philades 159-160 Tiberius Claudius Lysiades Meliteus 160-161 Publius Aelius Themison Pammenes Azenieus 161-162 Lucius Memmius Thoricius 162-163 Pompeius Alexandrus Acharneus 163-164 Philisteides Peiraieus 164-165 Pompeius Daidouchus 165-166 Sextus Phalereus 166-167 Marcus Valerius Mamertinus Marathonius 167-168 anarchy.
Atlantis - purports to be based on a visit to Egypt by the Athenian lawgiver Solon. Sonchis, priest of Thebes, translated it into Greek for Solon. Aristotle wrote of a large island in the Atlantic that the Carthaginians knew as Antilia. It is interesting that this name makes sense in Portuguese: ante-ilha meaning before/against-island. Proclus, the commentator of "Timaeus" mentions that Marcellus, relying on ancient historians, stated in his Aethiopiaka that in the Outer Ocean (the Atlantic) there were seven small islands dedicated to Persephone, and three large ones; one of these, comprising 1,000 stadia in length, was dedicated to Poseidon. Proclus tells us that Crantor reported that he, too, had seen the columns on which the story of Atlantis was preserved as reported by Plato: the Sais priest showed him its history.
Belisario - I 1.2 Act II 1.3 Act III 2 Reference Plot Place, Byzantium and the Hamus mountains. Time, sixth century A.D. Act I Hall in the emperor's palace. Irene and the populace greet the victor Belisarius. Antonina hates her husband because Proclus, the slave of Belisarius, has confessed on his deathbed, that upon command of his master he had exposed her son on the shore of the ocean, thus causing his death. The Emperor Justinian greets his commander and grants his prayer for the release of the prisoners. The captive, Alamir, who adores Belisarius, refuses to leave him. (Recitative and duet: "What do I see, does Alamir reject my gift?") The general adopts him in place of his long lost son. Irene congratulates her father, but Antonina has already begun her work.
Thomas Linacre - others of note in letters and politics, such as Sir Thomas More, Prince Arthur and Queen Mary I of England. Colet, Grocyn, William Lilye and other eminent scholars were his intimate friends, and he was esteemed by a still wider circle of literary correspondents in all parts of Europe. Linacre's literary activity was displayed both in pure scholarship and in translation from Greek. In the domain of scholarship he was known by the rudiments of (Latin) grammar (Progymnasmata Grammatices vulgaria), composed in English, a revised version of which was made for the use of the Princess Mary, and afterwards translated into Latin by Robert Buchanan. He also wrote a work on Latin composition, De emendata structure, Latini sermonis, which was published in London in 1524 and many times reprinted on the.
Procopius of Gaza - panegyric on the emperor Anastasius alone is extant; the description of the church of St Sophia and the monody on its partial destruction by an earthquake are spurious. His letters (162 in number), addressed to persons of rank, friends, and literary opponents, throw valuable light upon the condition of the sophistical rhetoric of the period and the character of the writer. The fragment of a polemical treatise against the Neoplatonist Proclus is now assigned to Nicolaus, archbishop of Methone in Peloponnesus (ft. 12th century). Procopius's theological writings consist of commentaries on the Octateuch, the books of Kings and Chronicles, Isaiah, the Proverbs, the Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes. They are amongst the earliest examples of the "catenic" (catena, chain) form of commentary, consisting of a series of extracts from the fathers,.
