Talk:Stephanus of Alexandria

Etienne d'Alexandrie
An editor removed my mention of him by this name, apparently offended by the idea that he might be French. The point of the reference was to allow people to find material about him using Google. Roger Pearse 17:14, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Stephan the alchemist wasn't this Stephen?
E.J. Holmyard (Alchemy Dover, 1990) calls him "the best known of the Greek alchemists after Zosimos" (p. 29). Who proved that the two are different people? -- llywrch 23:14, 26 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Not sure what the context is, but certainly sounds like the same man. Roger Pearse 07:00, 23 September 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Roger Pearse (talk • contribs)


 * It seems to me that the claim that all these manuscripts were written by the same person is more difficult to prove than the reverse. The manuscripts cited in the article actually show different names (Stephanus of Alexandria and "of Athens") and the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire shows that there are about 60 known Stephani for AD 527-641, so different names could mean different persons. The best article on the subject that I have read is W. Wolska-Conus, “Stephanos d’Athènes et Stephanos d’Alexandrie. Essai d’identification et de biographie, » Revue d’Études Byzantines 47 (1989), p.5-89.  She claims that the commentaries were written by the same man but that the alchemical and astrological work were done by other people. L.G. Westerink supported Ms. Wolska-Conus in his edition of the Anonymous Prolegomena to Platonic Philosophy.--Barzabouzath (talk) 17:26, 12 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Interesting indeed. I don't have access to that article, but I wish I did! Roger Pearse (talk) 18:46, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Prose/Context tags
I hope no-one will mind that I removed these tags, but they really served no purpose. A list of works is inevitably a list; to make it anything else makes it much less useful. The idea that we need more context... well, of what sort? -- The guy was a philosopher and alchemist who wrote works on philosophy and alchemy. What else is there to say? I do think that more info on the man would be good. The problem is that I can't find anything much about him, not even in specialist handbooks. But he's clearly important for the study of science in late-antiquity. So I've done my best. Roger Pearse 07:04, 23 September 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Roger Pearse (talk • contribs)

2 Stephens?
"Stephanus of Alexandria." Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 2008. Retrieved March 24, 2015 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830906112.html and "Stephanus (or Stephen) of Alexandria." Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 24 Mar. 2015 . seem to be about the same guy but other sources say there is a writer by the same name who wrote about medicine. J8079s (talk) 02:26, 25 March 2015 (UTC)