Sosigenes the Peripatetic
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were not the same at different eclipses.Sosigenes is perhaps called "the Peripatetic" only because of his connection with Alexander. Some ancient evidence may be taken to suggest that he was, in fact, a Stoic. As John Patrick Lynch has written:
The other two teachers of Alexander may actually have been the philosophers whom ancient sources called Stoics; in both cases, Herminos/Sosigenes "the Stoic" have been distinguished from Herminos/Sosigenes "the Peripatetic" only on the grounds that the two latter men were teachers of Alexander of Aphrodisias. But it is not improbable that Alexander of Aphrodisias studied with two Stoic teachers and that these two pairs of homonymous contemporaries are actually only two Stoic philosophers.[1]
He is often confused with the astronomer
Notes
- ^ John Patrick Lynch, Aristotle's School: A Study of a Greek Educational Institution, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972, p. 215.
References
- Irby-Massie G., Keyser P., Greek Science of the Hellenistic Era: A Sourcebook, pages 80–81. Routledge.
- Zhmud L., Chernoglazov A., (translator), The Origin of the History of Science in Classical Antiquity, page 231. Walter de Gruyter.
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sosigenes". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the