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  • Olympiodorus refers to Elpidia as a trophos, which usually indicates a wet-nurse, like the Latin nutrix.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • Categories [123] might be Elias, the pupil of Olympiodorus; however, other names have been advanced for the identity of this translator (Elamrani Jamal 1989, 151-2).

    Greek Sources in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy D'Ancona, Cristina 2009

  • The tradition continues through the Christian commentators Elias (probably a pupil of Olympiodorus), David,

    The Garbage House 2009

  • Sometime between 475 and 485 Damascius heard him lecture on Platonic philosophy; about 515 Olympiodorus heard him lecture on the

    The Garbage House 2009

  • Philoponus (ca. 490-570), Simplicius (writing after 529 after moving to the Athenian school and moving with it from Athens to the East after the school's closure by Justinian), and Olympiodorus

    The Garbage House 2009

  • Theodoretus, Stobaeus, and Olympiodorus (all in A 36) credit him with a view of earth as the archê or “first principle” of all things.

    Xenophanes Lesher, James 2008

  • Isagoge; they are also discussed in Elias™ and David's commentaries on the same work, in Olympiodorus

    Byzantine Philosophy Ierodiakonou, Katerina 2008

  • Olympiodorus has rightly been called “the first classicist” (Tarrant 1997).

    Olympiodorus Wildberg, Christian 2007

  • Third, some of his lectures were delivered not long after 565 (cf. in Meteor. 52,31; the way Olympiodorus reminds his students about a comet that had appeared in March/April 565 suggests that the event occurred a couple of years earlier).

    Olympiodorus Wildberg, Christian 2007

  • The 6th century Alexandrian Olympiodorus must be distinguished from another Olympiodorus who supposedly lived in the first half of the

    Olympiodorus Wildberg, Christian 2007

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