Bibliographic record
Abstract
SYRIANUS’ LIFE AND WORKS Information about the life of Syrianus, son of Philoxenus, is scarce, and is limited to what can be deduced from what we know about the life of Proclus, Syrianus’ disciple, who became much more famous than his master. Nevertheless, one date is certain: Syrianus became head of the Platonic school at Athens in 432 ce , after the death of his master, Plutarch. As to Syrianus’ own death, the date which is often given, of 437 ce , is only conjectural, if probable, but it is certain that he died before 439 ce , when Proclus wrote his commentary on Plato’s Timaeus ; the past tense verbs in this text indicate that Proclus’ master had already passed away. Among Syrianus’ numerous works, only his commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics has survived, and that in an incomplete form comprising only books 3, 4, 13 and 14. A commentary on two treatises by Hermogenes of Tarsus, an orator of the second to third century ce , On Types of Style and On Argumentative Stances , has also been transmitted under Syrianus’ name. However the most recent editor of these commentaries, H. Rabe, has expressed doubts concerning their authenticity. But we know that Syrianus gave lectures, not only on works by Aristotle other than the Metaphysics , but also on Platonic dialogues. As regards the latter, we have a commentary on Plato’s Phaedrus , written by Syrianus’ disciple Hermias: he wrote this commentary on the basis of notes taken during his master’s lectures.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.094 | 0.038 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".