Introduction

Peter Adamson: The Platonic Successor, Proclus. In Athens at the foot of the Acropolis lies an archaeological site that was discovered at the end of the 19th century. We know more about Proclus than we have any right to, thanks to a surviving biography of the great man by Proclus's own successor, Marinus. It's telling that Marinus relates the peak of his virtue to Theurgic practices in which one could communicate with Greek gods.