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HIEROCLES OF ALEXANDRIA

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HIEROCLES OF See also:ALEXANDRIA , Neoplatonist writer, flourished c. A.D. 430. He studied under See also:Vie celebrated Neoplatonist See also:Plutarch at See also:Athens, and taught for some years in his native See also:city. He seems to have been banished from Alexandria and to have taken up his See also:abode in See also:Constantinople, where he gave such offence by his religious opinions that he was thrown into See also:prison and cruelly flogged. The only See also:complete See also:work of his which has been preserved is the commentary on the Carmina Aurea of See also:Pythagoras. It enjoyed a See also:great reputation in See also:middle See also:age and See also:Renaissance times, and there are numerous See also:translations in various See also:European See also:languages. Several other writings, especially one on See also:providence and See also:fate, a consolatory See also:treatise dedicated to his See also:patron See also:Olympiodorus of See also:Thebes, author of ivropu See also:col Xoyoc, are quoted or referred to by See also:Photius and See also:Stobaeus. The collection of some 26o witticisms (hvreia) called titi.X67ek.as (ed. A. See also:Eberhard, See also:Berlin, 1869), attributed to Hierocles and Philagrius, has no connexion with Hierocles of Alexandria, but is probably a compilation of later date, founded on two older collections. It is now agreed that the fragments of the Elements of See also:Ethics ('IIOu ci orocxELWo'ts) preserved in Stobaeus are from a work by a Stoic named Hierocles, contemporary of See also:Epictetus, who has been identified with the " Hierocles Stoicus vir sanctus et gravis " in Aulus See also:Gellius (ix.

5. 8). This theory is confirmed by the See also:

discovery of a See also:papyrus (ed. H. von See also:Arnim in Berliner Klassikertexte, iv. 1906; see also C. Prachter, Hierokles der Stoiker, 1901). There is an edition of the commentary by F. W. Mullach in Fragmenta philosophorum Graecorum (186o), 1. 408, including full See also:information concerning Hierocles, the poem and the commentary; see also E. See also:Zeller, Philosophic der Griechen (2nd ed.), iii. 2, pp.

681-687; W. See also:

Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Literatur (1898), PP. 834. 849. Another Hierocles, who flourished during the reign of Justinian, was the author of a See also:list of provinces and towns in the Eastern See also:Empire. called Eupjx r os (" See also:fellow-traveller "; ed. A. See also:Burckhardt, 1893) ; it was one of the See also:chief authorities used by See also:Constantine Porphyrogenitus in his work on the " themes " of the See also:Roman Empire (see C. See also:Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Literatur, 1897, p. 417). In See also:Fabricius's Bibliotheca Graeca (ed. Harles), i. 791, sixteen persons named Hierocles, chiefly See also:literary, are mentioned.

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