ALEXANDER OF APHRODISIAS, pupil of Aristocles of Messene, the
most celebrated of the Greek commentators on the writings of
Aristotle, and styled, by way of pre-eminence, o exegetes ("the
expositor"), was a native of Aphrodisias in Caria. He came
to
Athens towards the end of the 2nd century A.D., became
head of the Lyceum and lectured on peripatetic philosophy. The
object of his work was to free the doctrine from the syncretism
of Ammonius and to reproduce the pure doctrine of Aristotle.
Commentaries by Alexander on the following works of Aristotle
are still extant:--the Analytica Priora, i.