# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simplicius-of-cilicia
# Generated: 2026-08-15T17:10:31.273Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simplicius-of-cilicia"
name: "Simplicius of Cilicia"
slug: "simplicius-of-cilicia"
description: "Simplicius of Cilicia was a Byzantine philosopher, a disciple of Ammonius Hermiae and Damascius, and one of the last of the Neoplatonists. He was among the pagan philosophers persecuted by Justinian in the early 6th century, and was forced for a time to seek refuge in the Persian court, before being allowed back into the empire. He wrote extensively on the works of Aristotle. Although his writings are all commentaries on Aristotle and other authors, rather than original compositions, his intelligent and prodigious learning makes him the last great philosopher of pagan antiquity. His works have preserved much information about earlier philosophers which would have otherwise been lost."
tagline: "6th-century Greek pagan philosopher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Simplicius_Commentary_on_Aristotle_De_Caelo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "480"
deathDate: "560"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.712572
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Simplicius van Cilicië"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Simplikios"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Symplicjusz z Cylicji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump