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Proclus Diadochus was an ancient philosopher and neoplatonist who led the Platonic Academy, during which neoplatonism reached its peak. He was born in the Greek colony of Byzantium in a wealthy lawyer's family from Xanthus. As a teenager, he went to Alexandria with the intention of following in his father's footsteps. There, he studied rhetoric and developed an interest in philosophy, becoming a student of the Alexandrian neoplatonist Olympiodorus the Younger. It was under his guidance that Proclus began studying Aristotle's logical treatises, in which he achieved success at that time. At the age of 20, Proclus moved to Athens, where the Platonic Academy was then led by Plutarch of Athens. Despite his advanced age, Plutarch personally mentored Proclus, studying Aristotle's "On

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