Biography:Alexander of Aegae
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Alexander of Aegae (Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος Αἰγαῖος) was a Peripatetic philosopher who flourished in Rome in the 1st century AD, and was a disciple of the celebrated mathematician Sosigenes of Alexandria.[1] He was tutor to the emperor Nero.[2][3] He wrote commentaries on the Categories[4] and the De Caelo[5] of Aristotle.[6] He had a son named Caelinus or Caecilius.[2] Attempts in the 19th century to ascribe some of the works of Alexander of Aphrodisias to Alexander of Aegae have been shown to be mistaken.[7]
References
- ↑ Jowett, Benjamin (1867). "Alexander of Aegae". in William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 110–111. http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0119.html.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Suda α 1128
- ↑ The quote attributed to Alexander in the Suda entry is found in Suetonius (Tiberius 57), where it is attributed to Theodorus of Gadara.
- ↑ Simplicius, In Cat. 10.20, 13.16
- ↑ Simplicius, In De Caelo, 430.29-32
- ↑ cf. Zalta, Edward N., ed. "Commentators on Aristotle". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-commentators/.
- ↑ Victor Carlisle Barr Coutant, (1936), Alexander of Aphrodisias: Commentary on Book IV of Aristotle's Meteorologica, page 21. Columbia University
Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed (1870). "Alexander of Aegae". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
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