Jonathan Greig on the East Roman Proclus Reception, Sixth to Fifteenth Centuries

Oddcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

We discuss the long, convoluted, and often tendentious reception of Proclus and Proclean ideas in the eastern Roman empire. From late-antique debates about the nature of being and participation, through medieval reappropriations of philosophy, through to the radical debates of Plethon and Scholarios in the final days of the empire, Proclus emerges as a curiously-persistent figure of many guises.