Dexippus ( el, Δέξιππος; ) was a Greek philosopher, a pupil of the Neoplatonist

Iamblichus Iamblichus (; grc-gre, Ἰάμβλιχος ; Aramaic: 𐡉𐡌𐡋𐡊𐡅 ''Yamlīḵū''; ) was a Syrian neoplatonic philosopher of Arabic origin. He determined a direction later taken by neoplatonism. Iamblichus was also the biographer of ...

, belonging to the middle of the 4th century AD. He wrote commentaries on Plato and Aristotle, of which one, an explanation and defense of the Aristotelian Categories, is partially extant. In this work Dexippus explains to one Seleucus the Aristotelian Categories, and endeavours at the same time to refute the objections of Plotinus. He also advocated the harmony of the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle. A Latin edition edited by Félicien was published under the title ''Quœstionum in Categorias Libri Tres'' in 1549. The Greek text was published by Leonhard von Spengel in 1859. An English translation by

John M. Dillon John Myles Dillon (; born 15 September 1939) is an Irish classicist and philosopher who was Regius Professor of Greek in Trinity College, Dublin between 1980 and 2006. Prior to that he taught at the University of California, Berkeley. He was ele ...

was published in 1990.

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