PHILOSOPHER

Proclus

412 - 485

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Proclus Lycius (; 8 February 412 – 17 April 485), called Proclus the Successor (Ancient Greek: Πρόκλος ὁ Διάδοχος, Próklos ho Diádokhos), was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, one of the last major classical philosophers of late antiquity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Proclus has received more than 578,335 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Proclus is the 176th most popular philosopher (up from 210th in 2019), the 137th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 195th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Turkish Philosopher.

Proclus is most famous for his commentary on Plato's "Timaeus" and "Parmenides." He also wrote commentaries on Aristotle's "Physics" and "De Caelo" and the "Homeric Hymns."

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  • 69.51

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  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Proclus ranks 176 out of 1,267. Before him are Athanasius Kircher, Al-Ash'ari, Mikhail Bakhtin, Claude Adrien Helvétius, Xun Kuang, and Ernest Renan. After him are Karl Kautsky, Posidonius, Pierre Bayle, Paul Ricœur, José Ortega y Gasset, and Julien Offray de La Mettrie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 412, Proclus ranks 1.  Among people deceased in 485, Proclus ranks 1. 

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    Proclus

    PHILOSOPHER

    412 - 485

    HPI: 69.51

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    PHILOSOPHER

    412 - 485

    HPI: 69.51

    Rank: 1

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Proclus ranks 137 out of 1,347. Before him are Stilicho (359), Simeon Stylites (389), John VIII Palaiologos (1392), Apelles (-370), Arrian (89), and Maurice (539). After him are Fethullah Gülen (1941), Alaeddin Pasha (1250), Saint Nino (296), Al-Battani (858), Thecla (100), and Nikephoros II Phokas (912).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Türkiye

Among philosophers born in Türkiye, Proclus ranks 13. Before him are Xenophanes (-570), Gregory of Nazianzus (329), Ibn Taymiyyah (1263), Leucippus (-500), Anaximenes of Miletus (-585), and Chrysippus (-281). After him are Apollonius of Tyana (15), Bias of Priene (-600), Arcesilaus (-315), Xenocrates (-396), Cleanthes (-330), and Michael Psellos (1018).

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