Alexander of Aphrodisias
Alexander of Aphrodisias (; 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" ().
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