 From Marinus we can gather some further evidence about Syrianus as a teacher. Whereas Plutarch had introduced the “freshman” Proclus to somewhat more accessible works such as Aristotle’s De anima and Plato’s Phaedo, Syrianus, once he had taken over instruction from Plutarch, subjected Proclus to a much more rigorous and systematic philosophical training. In quick succession, they read practically the entire Aristotelian corpus together (“Aristotle’s treatises on logic, ethics, politics, physics and … theology,” presumably in that order) in preparation for the study of Plato and, eventually, the Orphic Poems and Chaldaean Oracles. Syrianus gave Aristotle a firm place and function in the philosophical-theological curriculum of a student of Platonism; however, as we shall see, this yoking together of Aristotle to Plato did not entail endorsement of the doctrine that the views of the two ancestral philosophers were in complete harmony. 