Alexander of Aegae

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] 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

1. Jowett, Benjamin (1867). "Alexander of Aegae". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 110–111. Archived from the original on 2009-04-25.
2. Suda α 1128
3. The quote attributed to Alexander in the Suda entry is found in Suetonius (Tiberius 57), where it is attributed to Theodorus of Gadara.
4. Simplicius, In Cat. 10.20, 13.16
5. Simplicius, In De Caelo, 430.29-32
6. cf. Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). "Commentators on Aristotle". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
7. 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.