PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Izdebska, Anna
TI  - The Arabic Commentary on the Golden Verses Attributed to Proclus, and Its Neoplatonic Context
DP  - 2019 Sep 30
TA  - Aither
PG  - 4--48
VI  - 11
IP  - 2
AID - 10.5507/aither.2019.005
IS  - 18037879
AB  - 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.