Alexander of Aphrodisias
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Alexander of Aphrodisias 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 tau
16th-century AD engraving
Opening paragraph of the treatise On Fate (Peri eimarmenes) by Alexander of Aphrodisias dedicated to the Emperors (tous autokratoras). From an anonymous edition published in 1658.
Andrea Briosco, Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias, 16th century plaquette, Bode-Museum
Commentaria in meteorologica Aristotelis, 1548
Peripatetic school
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The Peripatetic school was a philosophical school founded in 335 BC by Aristotle in the Lyceum in ancient Athens. It was an informal institution whose members conducted philosophical and scientific in
Aristotle and his disciples – Alexander, Demetrius, Theophrastus, and Strato – in an 1888 fresco in the portico of the National University of Athens
Aristotle's School, a painting from the 1880s by Gustav Adolph Spangenberg