Alexander of Aphrodisias on Peripatetic Domestic Life

Alexander of Aphrodisias, late second and early third centuries CE, from Aphrodisias in Asia Minor, held the Peripatetic chair at Athens, dated between 198 and 209 CE.

What this site holds includes commentaries on Aristotle’s Prior Analytics, Topics, Meteorology, and the books later headed Metaphysics, together with independent treatises. Titles already on this page include On Fate (Περὶ εἱμαρμένης) and On the Soul (Περὶ ψυχῆς). Some attachments are marked as not his hand.

Περὶ εἱμαρμένης argues against Stoic εἱμαρμένη. Περὶ ψυχῆς works through Aristotle’s ψυχή. A book here is Greek under Alexander’s name as commentator; lost items, if any, are not recovered as autographs from him as founder.