Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles

Nicola Spanu wrote a PhD thesis on Plotinus and his Gnostic disciples and took part in a postdoctoral project on Byzantine cosmology and its relation to Neoplatonism. He has worked as an independent researcher on his second academic publication, which has focused on Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles.

• INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1. THE CHALDEAN TRIAD; CHAPTER 2. THE STRUCTURE OF THE DIVINE DIMENSION; CHAPTER 3. THE WORLD’S INTELLECTUAL ARCHETYPE AND THE CREATION OF THE MATERIAL DIMENSION; CHAPTER 4. MAN AND HIS DESTINY; CHAPTER 5. PROCLUS’ ON CHALDEAN PHILOSOPHY: TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY; CONCLUSIONS

"This is a book which scholars both of Proclus and of the Chaldean Oracles will want to have at their disposal... Spanu has taken on a task of considerable difficulty and one which does represent, as he suggests, the next necessary step in the interpretation of the Chaldean Oracles: the systematic study of the adaptation of Chaldean material in the works of late-antique Platonists, especially Proclus and Damascius." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review