# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexandros-of-aphrodisias
# Generated: 2026-08-16T10:34:56.645Z

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name: "Alexandros of Aphrodisias"
slug: "alexandros-of-aphrodisias"
description: "Alexander of Aphrodisias was a Peripatetic philosopher and the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek commentators on the writings of Aristotle. He was a native of Aphrodisias in Caria and lived and taught in Athens at the beginning of the 3rd century, where he held a position as head of the Peripatetic school. He wrote many commentaries on the works of Aristotle, extant are those on the Prior Analytics, Topics, Meteorology, Sense and Sensibilia, and Metaphysics. Several original treatises also survive, and include a work On Fate, in which he argues against the Stoic doctrine of necessity; and one On the Soul. His commentaries on Aristotle were considered so useful that he was styled, by way of pre-eminence, \"the commentator\"."
tagline: "2nd-3rd century Greek peripatetic philosopher and commentator on Aristotle"
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birthDate: "200"
deathDate: "215"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump