Back الإسكندر الأفروديسي Arabic الاسكندر الافروديسى ARZ Afrodisiyalı Aleksandr Azerbaijani Александър Афродизийски Bulgarian Alexandre d'Afrodísies Catalan Alexandr Afrodisijský Czech Alexander von Aphrodisias German Αλέξανδρος ο Αφροδισιεύς Greek Aleksandro de Afrodiziaso Esperanto Alejandro de Afrodisias Spanish
Alexander of Aphrodisias | |
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| Born | 2nd century AD |
| Died | 3rd century AD |
| School | Peripatetics |
Alexander of Aphrodisias (Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Ἀφροδισιεύς, romanized: Alexandros ho Aphrodisieus; 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).