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Interpreting Proclus : from Antiquity to the Renaissance
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ISBN: 9780521198493 9781139014090 9781108465359 1108465358 0521198496 1316053318 131605568X 1316081699 1316074595 1316079333 1139014099 1316069877 1316072231 1316076962 1322176698 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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"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 (ca 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"--

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