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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 317 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, and See also:head of the school at See also:Athens in See also:succession to See also:Plutarch. He is important as the teacher of See also:Proclus, and, like Plutarch and Proclus, as a commentator on See also:Plato and See also:Aristotle. His best-known extant See also:work is a commentary on the See also:Metaphysics of Aristotle. He is said to have written also on the De coelo and the De inter pretatione of Aristotle and on Plato's Tirnaeus. A See also:treatise on the Staseis of See also:Hermogenes was published under his name by Walz in 1833. His views were identical with those of Proclus, who regarded him with See also:great See also:affection and See also:left orders that he should be buried in the same See also:tomb.

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