c. 410–450 CE · Platonist philosopher
Hermias of Alexandria
Ἑρμείας
Known · AttestedWorked in Alexandria.
In Alexandria: c. 440–450 CE
Studied with Syrianus in Athens and taught in Alexandria; his notes on Plato's Phaedrus survive. His widow Aedesia brought their sons Ammonius and Heliodorus to Proclus.
Our device: Their emblem is a note on the Phaedrus. No portrait of any of these people survives. The emblems are our devices.
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- c. 430–610s CE · The late schools teach Plato and Aristotle Known: attested
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Sources (2)
- Damascius, Philosophical History fr. 56 Athanassiadi
- E. J. Watts, City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006)