"The thought of Proclus towered over the entire philosophy of his time as the last great system of Greco-Roman speculation, and offers our thought the dual value of the most elaborate solution to all problems, not only of the Neoplatonic school but of classical philosophy and the form in which it communicated almost immediately to Christian thought in the Middle Ages and the modern age. (Le scuole neoplatoniche, “'The Neoplatonic Schools”', XXXVII, p. 222)"