Opening paragraph of the treatise On Fate (Peri eimarmenes) by Alexander of Aphrodisias dedicated to Emperors (autokratoras). From an anonymous edition published in 1658.
Alexander of Aphrodisias (Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Ἀφροδισιεύς; fl. 200 AD) was a Peripatetic philosopher and the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek commentators on the writings of Aristotle. He was a native of Aphrodisias in Caria and lived and taught in Athens at the beginning of the 3rd century, where he held a position as head of the Peripatetic school. He wrote many commentaries on the works of Aristotle, extant are those on the Prior Analytics, Topics, Meteorology, Sense and Sensibilia, and Metaphysics. Several original treatises also survive, and include a work On Fate, in which he argues against the Stoic doctrine of necessity; and one On the Soul. His commentaries on Aristotle were considered so useful that he was styled, by way of pre-eminence, "the commentator" (ὁ ἐξηγητής).
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AlexanderofAphrodisias (Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Ἀφροδισιεύς; fl. 200 AD) was a Peripatetic philosopher and the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek commentators...
Aphrodisias (/æfrəˈdɪsiəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδισιάς, romanized: Aphrodisiás) was a small ancient Greek Hellenistic city in the historic Caria cultural...
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was one of the earliest authors to equate Aristotle's nous as prime mover of the Universe, with Plato's Form of the Good. AlexanderofAphrodisias was a...
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works of Aristotle, the pre-Socratic philosophers Empedocles and Heraclitus, the Middle Platonist philosophers AlexanderofAphrodisias and Numenius of Apamea...
important figure in this regard was AlexanderofAphrodisias who commentated on Aristotle's writings. With the rise of Neoplatonism in the 3rd century, Peripateticism...
time of Andronicus the school concentrated on preserving and defending his work. The most important figure in the Roman era is AlexanderofAphrodisias (c...
and Sensibilia Poetics Part of De Caelo with commentary by AlexanderofAphrodisias Commentaries by AlexanderofAphrodisias and Olympiodorus the Younger...
described by AlexanderofAphrodisias. Its history predates this, as a passage in Aristotle's Meteorologica refers to the distillation of water. Captain...
secondary. The dark area of unlit sky lying between the primary and secondary bows is called Alexander's band, after AlexanderofAphrodisias, who first described...
perception of time. They may even be the same. Despite hints by Aristotle himself that they were united, early commentators such as AlexanderofAphrodisias and...
although Alexander's text does not really say this.Fazzo, Silvia, "The Metaphysics from Aristotle to AlexanderofAphrodisias, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical...
fully committed. Demetrius the Cynic AlexanderofAphrodisias (3rd century AD) Neoplatonism, or Plotinism, is a school of religious and mystical philosophy...
Σωσιγένης) was a philosopher living at the end of the 2nd century AD. He was the tutor ofAlexanderofAphrodisias and wrote a work On Revolving Spheres, from...
"chosen of the people"; c. 460 – c. 370 BC) was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Abdera, primarily remembered today for his formulation of an...
are firmly known are not until the 2nd century AD, by Galen and AlexanderofAphrodisias; by this time it was a standard school text. Some ancient Greek...
active intellect to be an aspect of the human soul or an entity existing independently of man. AlexanderofAphrodisias regarded the active intellect as...
in quotations by AlexanderofAphrodisias in his commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics. For the dialogues, see also the editions of Richard Rudolf Walzer...
Heinrich Ritter, Alexander James William Morrison, (1846), The History of Ancient Philosophy, Volume 4, p. 204 Heinrich Ritter, Alexander James William Morrison...
ofAlexander Mourelatos. Aldershot: Ashgate. pp. 45–64. ISBN 978-0-7546-0502-7. Patrick, G. T. W. (1889). The Fragments of the Work of Heraclitus of Ephesus...
but he is sometimes credited with the discovery of the existence of irrational numbers. The discovery of irrational numbers is said to have been shocking...
recognised as Pythagorean. Writers such as Thierry of Chartres, William of Conches and Alexander Neckham referenced classical writers that had discussed...
CE, when AlexanderofAphrodisias described the process. Work on distilling other liquids continued in early Byzantine Egypt under Zosimus of Panopolis...
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