Hermias of Alexandria was a minor 5th-century CE author known only for a single surviving work. No biographical details about his life are recorded. His name indicates an Alexandrian origin, and his work suggests he was literate and familiar with philosophical ideas circulating in late antique Alexandria.

His sole known work is The Irrisio (Mockery) of the Pagan Philosophers, a 92-line Greek hexameter poem. Hermias’s significance rests entirely on this poem, a document of early Christian apologetic literature. It satirically critiques the doctrines of major Greek philosophers from a Christian perspective, serving as an example of how educated Christians engaged with the classical tradition. The work is a concise, derisive contribution to a polemical genre, though it had limited historical influence and was rediscovered by modern scholarship.