Adrastus of Aphrodisias

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Adrastus (Gr. 'Αδραστος) of Aphrodisias was a Peripatetic philosopher who lived in the second century AD. He was the author of a treatise on the arrangement of Aristotle's writings and his system of philosophy, quoted by Simplicius,[1] and by Achilles Tatius. Some commentaries of his on the Timaeus of Plato are also quoted by Porphyry,[2] and a treatise on the categories of Aristotle by Galen. None of these have come down to us; but a work on Harmonics, Περί Αρμονικων ("On Harmonics"), is preserved, in manuscript, in the Vatican Library.[3]

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  1. ^ Simplicius, Praefat. in viii. lib. Phys.
  2. ^ p. 270, in Harmonica Ptolemaei
  3. ^ Jowett, Benjamin (1867), “Adrastus (3)”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, pp. 21 

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).

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