TY - JOUR
AU - Dillon, John M.
AB -  102 Iamblichus and the Origin of the Doctrine of Henads JOHN M. DILLON E. R. Dodds, in his great edition of Proclus' Elements of Theologyl, devotes some pages of his commentary (pp. 257-260) to a discussion of the origin of the doctrine of divine henads, and their identification with the traditional gods. He traces this doctrine to Syrianus. Later, in the Addenda and Coyyigenda (p. 346), he correctly retracts one point in his argument, observing that Syrianus cannot be referred to by Proclus at In Paym. 1066, 21 Cousin, as 'nvÈç Twv ipiv ai8oiwv, since he places the gods in the Second Hypothesis of the Paymenides, whereas the figure or figures referred to there place them in the First. At this point he gives up, merely noting that the doctrine of henads must be earlier than Syrianus. It seems to me that by a somewhat closer examination of the existing evidence we can come to a more definite conclusion than this, and in fact attribute the origin of the doctrine with virtual certainty to Iamblichus. Proclus, in Book VI of his Commentary on the Paymenides (1054, 34 ff. Cousin), sets out what can be identified with certainty, on 
TI - Iamblichus and the Origin of the Doctrine of Henads
JF - Phronesis
DO - 10.1163/156852872X00123
DA - 1972-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/brill/iamblichus-and-the-origin-of-the-doctrine-of-henads-2OD3Qnne86
SP - 102
EP - 106
VL - 17
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -