Adrastus of Aphrodisias

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He was the author of a treatise on the arrangement of Aristotle's writings and his system of philosophy which was quoted by Simplicius,[1] and by Achilles Tatius.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Some commentaries of his on the Timaeus of Plato are also quoted by Porphyry,[2] which was also used by Theon of Smyrna in the surviving sections of his On Mathematics Useful for the Understanding of Plato.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn and a treatise on the Categories of Aristotle by Galen.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".Template:Sfn

None of these works have survived.Template:Sfn In some medieval manuscripts, a work with the title Harmonica was attributed to Adrastus, however, this was a misattribution of a work by Manuel Bryennios.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn [3][4]

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  1. Simplicius, Commentary on Aristotle's Categories 18.16–21
  2. p. 270, in Harmonica Ptolemaei
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Ancient testimony

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