Aristocles of Messene

Aristocles of Messene in Sicily,^[1] a Peripatetic philosopher, who probably lived in the 1st century AD.^[2] He may have been the teacher of Alexander of Aphrodisias.^[3]

According to the Suda^[1] and Eudokia, he wrote several works:

• Πότερον σπουδαιότερος Ὅμηρος ἢ Πλάτων - Whether Homer or Plato is more Serious.
• Τέχναι ῥητορικαί - Arts of Rhetoric.
• A work on the god Serapis.
• A work on Ethics, in nine books.
• A work on Philosophy, in ten books.

The last of these works appears to have been a history of philosophy, in which he wrote about the philosophers, their schools, and doctrines. Several fragments of it are preserved in Eusebius.^[4]

Notes

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1867). "^{article name needed}". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.