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Encyclopedia of Philosophy: BOETHIUS AND PHILOPONUS
presided over the codification of Roman Law. His generals also conquered, for a while, substantial portions of theformer Western Empire. Philoponus, as a Christian based in Alexandria, was unperturbed by the closure of the paganschools in Athens, and could look with satisfaction on the downfall of their foremost scholar, the Aristoteliancommentator Simplicius. For it was as a radical critic of Aristotle that Philoponus made his name, and Simplicius washis most distinguished con¬temporary...