Alexander of Aegae explained

Alexander of Aegae (Greek: Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ἀλέξανδρος Αἰγαῖος) was a Peripatetic philosopher who flourished in Rome in the 1st century AD, and was a disciple of the celebrated mathematician Sosigenes of Alexandria.^[1] He was tutor to the emperor Nero.^{[2] [3]} He wrote commentaries on the Categories^[4] and the De Caelo^[5] of Aristotle.^[6] He had a son named Caelinus or Caecilius.^[2] Attempts in the 19th century to ascribe some of the works of Alexander of Aphrodisias to Alexander of Aegae have been shown to be mistaken.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Encyclopedia: Jowett . Benjamin . Benjamin Jowett . Alexander of Aegae . . . 1 . 110–111 . . Boston . 1867 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090425071838/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0119.html . 2009-04-25 .
2. [Suda]
3. The quote attributed to Alexander in the Suda entry is found in Suetonius (Tiberius 57), where it is attributed to Theodorus of Gadara.
4. [Simplicius of Cilicia|Simplicius]
5. Simplicius, In De Caelo, 430.29-32
6. cf. aristotle-commentators . Commentators on Aristotle.
7. Victor Carlisle Barr Coutant, (1936), Alexander of Aphrodisias: Commentary on Book IV of Aristotle's Meteorologica, page 21. Columbia University