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Porphyry
3rd-century Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
Alexandros of Aphrodisias
2nd-3rd century Greek peripatetic philosopher and commentator on Aristotle
Nicolaus of Damascus
1st-century BC historian and philosopher
Damascius
Damascius (; ; 462 – after 538), known as "the last of the Athenian Neoplatonists", was the last scholarch of the neoplatonic Athenian school. He was one of the neoplatonic philosophers who left Athens after laws confirmed by emperor Justinian I forced the closure of the Athenian school in c. 529 AD. After he left Athens, he may have sought refuge in the court of the Persian King Chrosroes, before being allowed back into the Byzantine Empire. His surviving works consist of three commentaries on the works of Plato, and a metaphysical text entitled Difficulties and Solutions of First Princ
John Philoponus
Byzantine philologist and philosopher (c. 490–c. 570)
Simplicius of Cilicia
6th-century Greek pagan philosopher
Andronicus of Rhodes
ancient Greek philosopher
Themistius
Themistius ( ; 317 – c. 388 AD), nicknamed Euphrades (, "eloquent"), was a statesman, rhetorician and philosopher. He flourished in the reigns of Constantius II, Julian, Jovian, Valens, Gratian and Theodosius I, and he enjoyed the favour of all those emperors, notwithstanding their many differences and the fact that he himself was not a Christian. He was admitted to the senate by Constantius in 355, and he was prefect of Constantinople in 384 on the nomination of Theodosius. Of his many works, thirty-three orations of his have come down to us, as well as various commentaries and epitomes of th
Ammonius Hermiae
5th-century Greek philosopher
Theodoros Metochites
Byzantine scholar (1270-1332)
David Anhaght
Armenian philosopher/5th century
Syrianus
Syrianus (, Syrianos; died c. 437 A.D.) was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, and head of Plato's Academy in Athens, succeeding his teacher Plutarch of Athens in 431/432 A.D. He is important as the teacher of Proclus, and, like Plutarch and Proclus, as a commentator on Plato and Aristotle. His best-known extant work is a commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle. He is said to have written also on the De Caelo and the De Interpretatione of Aristotle and on Plato's Timaeus.
Olympiodorus the Younger
Neoplatonist philosopher (c.495–570)
Eudorus of Alexandria
1st century BC Greco-Egyptian philosopher
Dexippus (philosopher)
Greek philosopher
Adrastus of Aphrodisias
ancient Greek philosopher
Aspasius
Aspasius (; ; c. 80 – c. 150 AD) was a Peripatetic philosopher. Boethius, who frequently referred to his works, said he wrote commentaries on most of the works of Aristotle.
Boethus of Sidon
Peripatetic philosopher from Sidon 75-10BC
Stephen of Alexandria
philosopher
Asclepius of Tralles
Byzantine philosopher
Michael of Ephesus
Byzantine philosopher
Eustratius of Nicaea
Byzantine philosopher and theologian
Elias
ancient/early Medieval Greek philosopher
Alexander of Aegae
ancient Greek philosopher
David
Greek scholar and commentator
Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca
standard collection of extant ancient Greek commentaries on Aristotle