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name: John Philoponus of Alexandria
name_greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Φιλόπονος
eul_aid: uxc
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/authors/john-philoponus-of-alexandria-uxc"
period: Late Antique
dialect: Philosophical Koine
affiliation: Christian
works_count: 11
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# John Philoponus of Alexandria

*Ἰωάννης ὁ Φιλόπονος*

**eul_aid:** `uxc` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/authors/john-philoponus-of-alexandria-uxc)

John Philoponus, 6th century Christian philosopher and scholar. Philosophical and theological works. Free to read and download from the Greek library archive.

## Works

- [Commentaries-Aristotle in Greek](https://eulogikon.org/works/john-philoponus-alexandria-commentaries-aristotle-uxc-ah) — *Σχόλια εἰς τὰ περὶ γενέσεως ζῴων Ἀριστοτέλους* · `uxc-ah`
- [Commentary on On Generation and Corruption](https://eulogikon.org/works/john-philoponus-alexandria-commentary-aristotle-uxc-al) — *Σχόλια εἰς τὰ περὶ γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς* · `uxc-al`
- [Commentary on the Categories](https://eulogikon.org/works/john-philoponus-alexandria-commentary-aristotle-uxc-ai) — *Σχόλια εἰς τὰς κατηγορίας Ἀριστοτέλους* · `uxc-ai`
- [Commentary on the Prior Analytics](https://eulogikon.org/works/john-philoponus-alexandria-commentary-aristotle-uxc-aj) — *Σχόλια εἰς τὰ ἀναλυτικὰ πρότερα Ἀριστοτέλους* · `uxc-aj`
- [On Aristotle's Books-the Soul, Commentary](https://eulogikon.org/works/john-philoponus-alexandria-on-soul-commentary-uxc-ad) — *Σχόλια εἰς τὰ περὶ ψυχῆς Ἀριστοτέλους* · `uxc-ad`
- [On Aristotle's Meteorology Book I. Commentary](https://eulogikon.org/works/john-philoponus-alexandria-meteorology-commentary-uxc-ac) — *Σχόλια εἰς τὰ μετεωρολογικὰ Ἀριστοτέλους,* · `uxc-ac`
- [On Aristotle's Physics Books, Commentary](https://eulogikon.org/works/john-philoponus-alexandria-commentary-physics-uxc-ag) — *Σχόλια εἰς τὰ φυσικὰ Ἀριστοτέλους* · `uxc-ag`
- [On Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, Commentary](https://eulogikon.org/works/john-philoponus-alexandria-posterior-analytics-commentary-uxc-ab) — *Σχόλια εἰς τὰ ἀναλυτικὰ ὕστερα Ἀριστοτέλους* · `uxc-ab`
- [On the Creation of the World](https://eulogikon.org/works/john-philoponus-alexandria-creation-world-uxc-am) — *Περὶ τῆς τοῦ κόσμου δημιουργίας* · `uxc-am`
- [On the Eternity of the World](https://eulogikon.org/works/john-philoponus-alexandria-eternity-world-uxc-an) — *Περὶ τῆς τοῦ κόσμου ἀϊδιότητος* · `uxc-an`
- [On the Use and Construction of the Astrolabe](https://eulogikon.org/works/john-philoponus-alexandria-astrolabe-use-construction-uxc-ae) — *Περὶ τῆς χρήσεως καὶ κατασκευῆς τοῦ ἀστρολάβου* · `uxc-ae`

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