Kasra Abdavi-Azar - A New Testimonium for Numenius: Proclus on the

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Kasra Abdavi-Azar
Classical Quarterly, vol. 73(1), 2023, pp. 484–8

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Abdavi-Azar, K. (2023). A New Testimonium for Numenius: Proclus on the Origin of Evil.’ Classical Quarterly, 73(1), 484–488. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838823000149

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Abdavi-Azar, Kasra. “A New Testimonium for Numenius: Proclus on the Origin of Evil.’” Classical Quarterly 73, no. 1 (2023): 484–8.

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Abdavi-Azar, Kasra. “A New Testimonium for Numenius: Proclus on the Origin of Evil.’” Classical Quarterly, vol. 73, no. 1, 2023, pp. 484–88, doi:10.1017/S0009838823000149.

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@article{kasra2023a,
  title = {A New Testimonium for Numenius: Proclus on the Origin of Evil’},
  year = {2023},
  issue = {1},
  journal = {Classical Quarterly},
  pages = {484–8},
  volume = {73},
  doi = {10.1017/S0009838823000149},
  author = {Abdavi-Azar, Kasra}
}

Abstract

In the course of examining the origin of evil in the De malorum subsistentia, Proclus reproduces a position that considers the maleficent (world-)soul as cause of evil. The same entity is held to co-govern the material realm alongside the beneficent world-soul. While scholarship tends to associate the testimonium with Plutarch (and Atticus), this survey shows why Numenius of Apamea is a much more probable candidate. The discussion concludes with further proposals for a new edition of Numenius, including possible traces of Numenius in Iamblichus’ On Soul and Porphyry's On the Faculties of Soul.