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Aither 22/2019 (International issue no. 6):4-48 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2019.005

The Arabic Commentary on the Golden Verses Attributed to Proclus, and Its Neoplatonic Context

Anna Izdebska
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany
Institute for Religious Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland

The modern edition of the Arabic commentary to a Greek Pythagorean poem known as the Golden Verses, attributed to Proclus, was first published in 1984, more than a quarter century ago. Despite the fact that this Graeco-Arabic text is an interesting example of a late antique Neoplatonic philosophical commentary and it offers a Neoplatonic interpretation of various elements of the Pythagorean tradition, it has hardly been studied as such at all. In this article I argue that there exist enough arguments to conclude that this text contains a number of genuine Neoplatonic elements and should be studied along with the other late antique texts from this tradition. Moreover, I demonstrate that in all probability this text actually comes from the inner circle of Proclus Diadochus' students, or from the philosopher himself.

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