Aetius

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Aetius or Aëtius (Greek Αέτιος) is the name of several Late Antique persons:

  • Aëtius (philosopher) of Antioch, a 1st-century B.C.E. peripatetic philosopher
  • Aëtius (theologian) of Antioch, a 4th-century Anomean theologian, called "Aetius the Atheist" by his enemies.
  • Flavius Aëtius, a 5th-century Roman general.
  • Aëtius Amidenus, a 6th-century Byzantine physician.
  • Sicamus Aëtius, a Byzantine medical writer possibly identical with the preceding

The Italian form is Ezio.

Aetius is also a spider genus (Corinnidae)