Alexander of
Aegae (
Greek: 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]