Proclus' Chrestomathy

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lost ancient Greek work prose epitome collection secondary source on early Greek epic

Proclus' Chrestomathy is a lost ancient Greek work, known through later summaries, that provided prose epitomes of the early epic poems of the Trojan cycle and other pre-Homeric epics.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Proclus’ Chrestomathy	6
Proclus’ Chrestomathy (summary of the Epic Cycle)	2
Chrestomathy of Proclus	1
Proclus' Chrestomathy canonical	1
Proclus’ Chrestomathy (summary)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3980702 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Proclus' Chrestomathy
Context triple: [Trojan cycle, knownFrom, Proclus' Chrestomathy]

A. Epitome of the Divine Institutes
Epitome of the Divine Institutes is a concise abridgment of Lactantius’s major Christian apologetic work, presenting its theological and philosophical arguments in a shorter, more accessible form.
B. Theologia Platonica
Theologia Platonica is Marsilio Ficino’s major philosophical treatise that systematically presents a Christianized interpretation of Plato’s metaphysics and the immortality of the soul, foundational to Renaissance Platonism.
C. Hypatian Chronicle
The Hypatian Chronicle is a key medieval East Slavic historical chronicle that preserves important accounts of Kievan Rus' and neighboring regions.
D. Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher
Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher is a philosophical dialogue by George Berkeley that critiques freethinkers and defends Christian religion and immaterialist philosophy.
E. Divinae Institutiones
Divinae Institutiones is an early 4th-century Christian apologetic work by Lactantius that systematically presents and defends Christian doctrine to a Roman audience.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Proclus' Chrestomathy
Target entity description: Proclus' Chrestomathy is a lost ancient Greek work, known through later summaries, that provided prose epitomes of the early epic poems of the Trojan cycle and other pre-Homeric epics.

A. Epitome of the Divine Institutes
Epitome of the Divine Institutes is a concise abridgment of Lactantius’s major Christian apologetic work, presenting its theological and philosophical arguments in a shorter, more accessible form.
B. Theologia Platonica
Theologia Platonica is Marsilio Ficino’s major philosophical treatise that systematically presents a Christianized interpretation of Plato’s metaphysics and the immortality of the soul, foundational to Renaissance Platonism.
C. Hypatian Chronicle
The Hypatian Chronicle is a key medieval East Slavic historical chronicle that preserves important accounts of Kievan Rus' and neighboring regions.
D. Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher
Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher is a philosophical dialogue by George Berkeley that critiques freethinkers and defends Christian religion and immaterialist philosophy.
E. Divinae Institutiones
Divinae Institutiones is an early 4th-century Christian apologetic work by Lactantius that systematically presents and defends Christian doctrine to a Roman audience.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (41)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	lost ancient Greek work ⓘ prose epitome collection ⓘ secondary source on early Greek epic ⓘ
associatedWith	Aethiopis ⓘ Cypria ⓘ Epic Cycle ⓘ Iliou Persis ⓘ Little Iliad ⓘ Nostoi ⓘ Telegony ⓘ
authorshipStatus	authorship uncertain ⓘ
authorshipTradition	attributed to Proclus ⓘ
citedAs	Χρηστομάθεια (Chrestomathy) ⓘ
citedBy	Photius of Constantinople ⓘ linked to: Photios I of Constantinople
culturalContext	ancient Greek literary scholarship ⓘ
focusesOn	narrative contents of epics rather than full text ⓘ
genre	chrestomathy ⓘ prose summary ⓘ
influenced	modern understanding of the Trojan cycle ⓘ
knownFrom	Photius' Bibliotheca ⓘ later summaries ⓘ
language	Ancient Greek ⓘ
modernRelevance	key source for lost poems of the Epic Cycle ⓘ
preservationForm	fragments in later authors ⓘ
provides	prose epitomes of early epic poems ⓘ summaries of pre-Homeric epics ⓘ summaries of the Trojan cycle ⓘ
relatedTo	Homeric epics ⓘ non-Homeric Trojan epics ⓘ
scholarlyDebate	identity of the author Proclus ⓘ
scope	epic poems surrounding the Trojan War ⓘ
subjectMatter	Trojan cycle ⓘ early Greek epic poetry ⓘ pre-Homeric epics ⓘ
timeOfOrigin	antiquity ⓘ
transmission	Byzantine scholarly tradition ⓘ
usedFor	reconstruction of lost epics ⓘ study of pre-Homeric Trojan narratives ⓘ study of the Epic Cycle ⓘ
workStatus	lost ⓘ
workType	mythographical handbook ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Trojan cycle → knownFrom → Proclus' Chrestomathy ⓘ

Nostoi → mentionedIn → Chrestomathy of Proclus ⓘ

subject linked to: Nostoi (Returns)