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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 371 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HERMIAS . (1) A See also:

Greek philosopher of the Alexandrian school. A See also:disciple of See also:Proclus, he was known best for the lucidity of his method rather than for any See also:original ideas. His See also:chief workswere a study of the Isagoge of See also:Porphyry and a commentary on See also:Plato's See also:Phaedrus. Unlike the See also:majority of logicians of the See also:time, he admitted the See also:absolute validity of the second and third figures of the See also:syllogism. (2) A See also:Christian apologist and philosopher who flourished probably in the 4th and 5th centuries. Nothing is known about his See also:life, but there has been preserved of his writings a small thesis entitled [itavvpµos rwv Ew Othas-64 v. In this See also:work he attacked See also:pagan See also:philosophy for its lack of See also:logic in dealing with the See also:root problems of life, the soul, the cosmos and the first cause or vital principle. There is an edition by von See also:Otto published in the Corpus apologetarum (See also:Jena, 1872). It is interesting, but without any claim to profundity of reasoning. Two See also:minor philosophers of the same name are known. Of these, one was a disciple of Plato and a friend of See also:Aristotle; he became See also:tyrant of Atarneus and invited Aristotle to his See also:court.

Aristotle subsequently married Pythias, who was either niece or See also:

sister of Hermias. Another Hermias was a Phoenician philosopher of the Alexandrian school; when Justinian closed the school of See also:Athens, he was one of the five representatives of the school who took See also:refuge at the See also:Persian court.

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