Eutychius Proclus was a grammarian who flourished in the 2nd century CE. He was born at Sicca in Africa. He was the instructor of the Roman emperor

Roman Emperor

The Roman emperor was the ruler of the Roman State during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office although at any given time, a given title was associated with the emperor...

 Marcus Aurelius.

It is probably this Proclus who is mentioned by Trebellius Pollio as the most learned grammarian of his age. He was made consul by Marcus Aurelius.

Works

No works by Eutychius Proclus are known for sure to survive, and little is known about him personally. However, it is widely thought that he is to be identified with the author of a Chrestomathy

Chrestomathy

Chrestomathy is a collection of choice literary passages, used especially as an aid in learning a foreign language.In philology or in the study of literature, it is a type of reader or anthology which presents a sequence of example texts, selected to demonstrate the development of language or...

which is our most important source of information on the Epic Cycle.

If so, Eutychius Proclus is to be identified with the Proklos discussed by the 9th century scholar and patriarch

Patriarch

Originally a patriarch was a man who exercised autocratic authority as a pater familias over an extended family. The system of such rule of families by senior males is called patriarchy. This is a Greek word, a compound of πατριά , "lineage, descent", esp...

 Photius. Photius writes that the Chrestomathy comprised four books, which covered numerous topics to do with ancient Greek literature

Ancient Greek literature

Ancient Greek literature refers to literature written in the Ancient Greek language until the 4th century.- Classical and Pre-Classical Antiquity :...

, and he describes the contents of the first two books as follows:

• biographies of the "five greatest" epic poets, Homer
  Homer
  In the Western classical tradition Homer , is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.When he lived is...
  
  , Hesiod
  Hesiod
  Hesiod was a Greek oral poet generally thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. His is the first European poetry in which the poet regards himself as a topic, an individual with a distinctive role to play. Ancient authors credited him and...
  
  , Peisander
  Peisander
  Peisander of Camirus in Rhodes, Ancient Greek epic poet, supposed to have flourished about 640 BC.He was the author of a Heracleia - Ἡράκλεια, in which he introduced a new conception of the hero Heracles costume, the lions skin and club taking the place of the older armor of the heroic era. He is...
  
  , Panyasis, and Antimachus
  Antimachus
  Antimachus, of Colophon or Claros, Greek poet and grammarian, flourished about 400 BC.Scarcely anything is known of his life. His poetical efforts were not generally appreciated, although he received encouragement from his younger contemporary Plato .His chief works were: an epic Thebais, an...
  
  
• an account of a long version of the Epic Cycle (including the Titanomachy
  Titanomachy
  In Greek mythology, the Titanomachy or War of the Titans , was the ten-year series of battles fought in Thessaly between the two camps of deities long before the existence of mankind: the Titans, based on Mount Othrys, and the Olympians, who would come to reign on Mount Olympus...
  
  and Theban Cycle
  Theban Cycle
  The Theban Cycle is a collection of four lost epics of ancient Greek literature which related the mythical history of the Boeotian city of Thebes...
  
   as well as the Trojan War)
• a discussion of the authorship of the Cypria
• discussions of various iambic and lyric poets and prose writers

A famous manuscript of the Iliad

Iliad

The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles...

known as Venetus A

Venetus A

Venetus A is the more common [or original] name for the tenth century manuscript catalogued in the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice as Codex Marcianus Graecus 454, now 822....

preserves a Life of Homer, and summaries of the Epic Cycle, except that the section on the Cypria is damaged. Several other manuscripts preserve the Life, or the Cypria summary, or both (but none of the rest of the Epic Cycle).