Both may have written works with the same name. Unresolved scholarly debate still centers around which works mentioned in the Suida (IV 478, 21) were written by Proclus and which were those of Syrianus. With these credentials, it would be mistaken to assume that Syrianus’ core doctrines are confined to what is known to be his extant writings. He was a key promulgator of Athenian school doctrine and a significant influence on the Alexandrian School Scholarchs such as Ammonius, Philoponus, Olympiodorus, Simplicius and Damascius. Syrianus, the link between the founder of the Athenian academy and Proclus, headed the Athenian school from 432-437. Lloyd Gerson, in a review of the volume that grew out of a 2006 colloquium on Syrianus, 1 reminds us that the period between Iamblichus (c.245-325C.E.) and Proclus (412-485C.E.) presents the scholar with lacunae that are difficult to fill in. The premise of the book is that these passages contain doctrine that can be directly attributed to Syrianus. Sarah Wear’s volume consists largely of passages harvested from Proclus (with a few from Damascius), tagged by Proclus’s reference to his teacher and beloved mentor, Syrianus.
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