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Headword:
Surianos
Adler number: sigma,1662
Translated headword: Syrianos, Syrianus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: of Alexandria: philosopher, Isocratean,[1] leader of the school and sect in
Athens and a teacher of
Proclus, who also became his successor.[2] He wrote a commentary on the whole of
Homer in seven books; four books on the
Republic of
Plato; two books on the
Theology of Orpheus;
About the gods in Homer;[3]
Harmonisation of Orpheus, Pythagoras and Plato in respect of oracles, ten books; and other works of exegesis.[4]
[Note] that Isidore the philosopher, so
Damascius says, "when examining everything said by the ancients, was relentless in the pursuit of utmost accuracy; and he applied his mind particularly, after
Plato, to
Iamblichus -- and of course to
Iamblichus' friends and followers."[5] "Of whom he used to insist that the best was his own [fellow-]citizen
Syrianus, the teacher of
Proclus. He saw fit to disregard no-one for the collecting of true knowledge."[6]
Surianos, Alexandreus, philosophos, Isokratiôn, hêgêsamenos tês en Athênais scholês te kai diatribês kai didaskalos genomenos Proklou, hos kai diadochos autou egeneto. egrapsen eis Homêron holon hupomnêma en bibliois hepta, eis tên politeian Platônos biblia tessara, eis tên Orpheôs Theologian biblia duo, [eis ta Proklou] Peri tôn par' Homêrôi theôn, Sumphônian Orpheôs, Puthagorou, Platônos peri ta logia biblia deka: kai alla tina exêgêtika. hoti Isidôros ho philosophos, hôs phêsi Damaskios, panta ta tôn palaiôn exetazôn ouk aniei pros to akribestaton: proseiche de ton noun es ta malista meta Platôna tôi Iamblichôi, kai tois Iamblichou philois dê kai opadois. hôn ariston einai diïschurizeto ton heautou politên Surianon, ton Proklou didaskalon. atimazein de oudena êxiou pros sunagurmon alêthous epistêmês.
Notes:
Rhetorician and Neoplatonist philosopher of the C5 CE (succeeded
Plutarch of
Athens [
pi 1794] as head of the Academy in 431/2). See generally OCD4 s.v.
[1] The term (ostensibly a present participle) is otherwise unattested and may well be corrupt (as well as inappropriate); Adler's apparatus tentatively suggests
*swkratiko/s.
[2] cf.
pi 2473.
[3] The immediately preceding phrase
ei)s ta\ *pro/klou is generally deleted as an intrusive marginal gloss.
[4] Including the only ones extant: commentaries on
Aristotle's
Metaphysics and two rhetorical treatises of
Hermogenes (OCD).
[5]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr.77 Zintzen (33 Asmus).
[6]
Damascius fr.77 Zintzen continued (36 Asmus); cf.
sigma 1425.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 August 2006@08:05:29.
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