SIMPLICIUS

A Peripatetic philosopher of the 6th century after Christ, and a native of Cilicia. When Justinian in 529 closed the school of philosophy in which he taught at Athens, he and six other philosophers emigrated to the court of the Persian king Chosroes. When he made peace with Justinian in 588, and obtained from him leave for the philosophers to return unmolested, Simplicius went to Alexandria, where he died in 549. We still posses some excellent commentaries of his on several writings of Aristotle (Categories, Physics, De Coelo, De Anima), and on the Encheiridion, of Epictetus.