Stephanus of Alexandria was a Byzantine philosopher and teacher active from about 580 to 640 who, alongside philosophy in the Neo-Platonic tradition, also wrote on alchemy, astrology and astronomy. He was one of the last exponents of the Alexandrian academic tradition before the Islamic conquest of Egypt, relocating to Constantinople shortly after Emperor Heraclius's accession in 610 and dying there sometime before Heraclius's own death in 641.
Facts
Defining MomentMoved from Alexandria to Constantinople shortly after Heraclius acceded in 610 1 Notable PublicationCommentary on Aristotle 1 Office HeldEcumenical professor (oikoumenikos didaskalos) at the Imperial Academy, Constantinople 1 Tradition
Tradition (category) Tradition (category) Classification
NationalityByzantine Empire (Historical) 1 Connections
In Tradition
Entity-backed identity for the tradition-category enum value this philosopher already carries, resolved to a philosophy school by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The tradition fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the philosopher unchanged.
Entity-backed identity for the tradition-category enum value this philosopher already carries, resolved to a philosophy school by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The tradition fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the philosopher unchanged.
In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Stephanus of Alexandria
Lead, sentence 1
philosophy in the Neo-Platonic tradition
Life, paragraph 2, sentence 3
(oikoumenikos didaskalos) at the Imperial Academy
Life, paragraph 2, sentence 1
Stephanus moved to Constantinople, the capital of the empire
Works, item 1
A commentary on Aristotle
Lead section, nationality sentence
Stephanus of Alexandria (Greek: Στέφανος Αλεξανδρεύς; fl.
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