Syrianus

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Syrianus was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, and head of Plato's Academy in Athens after his teacher Plutarch of Athens.

He is important as the teacher of Proclus and Hermias, 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 (In Aristotelis metaphysica commentaria, Berlin: Reimer, 1902). He is said to have written also on the De coelo and the De interprelatione of Aristotle and on Plato's Timaeus. A treatise on the Stasis (see inventio) of Hermogenes was published under his name by Walz in 1833 (Syriani, Sopatri et Marcellini Scholia Ad Hermogenis Status, Scholia ad Hermogenis librum περὶ στάσεων), reprinted in Commentarium in Hermogenis librum περὶ στάσεων, Teubner, 1893. He is also author of another treatise on Hermogenes' idea (Commentarium in Hermogenis librum περὶ ἰδεῶν, Teubner, 1892). His views were identical with those of Proclus, who regarded him with great affection and left orders that he should be buried in the same tomb.

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