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date: 29 September 2023

Adrastus(2)locked

, of Aphrodisias, Peripatetic philosopher, 2nd cent. CE

Adrastus(2)locked

, of Aphrodisias, Peripatetic philosopher, 2nd cent. CE
  • Andrew Barker

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RE, of Aphrodisias, *Peripatetic philosopher (2nd cent. ce). His influential writings included commentaries on the order of *Aristotle's works (mainly philological); on Nicomachean Ethics and *Theophrastus' Characters (historical and literary); on Categories and on Physics; and on *Plato (1)'s Timaeus (mathematical and scientific, relating Pythagorean and Aristoxenian harmonics and contemporary astronomy to Platonic cosmology (see aristoxenus; pythagoras (1)).

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