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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Proclus Lycius lived from 8 February 412 to 17 April 485, earning the title "the Successor" as one of the last major classical philosophers before the ancient world closed. He constructed an elaborate Neoplatonist system that became a hinge: Byzantine philosophy inherited it, early Islamic thinkers translated and debated it, scholastics in medieval Europe grappled with its logic. Centuries later Hegel singled out Proclus's Platonic Theology as "the true turning point or transition from ancient to modern times, from ancient philosophy to Christianity." The architecture held.