Alexander of Aphrodisias was the greatest exponent of
Aristotelianism after Aristotle, and his commentary on Metaphysics
1-5 is the most substantial commentary on the Metaphysics to have
survived from antiquity. The commentary on book 1 has the further
interest that over half of it is devoted to Aristotle's discussion
of Plato. Aristotle's battery of objectives to the theory of Ideas
is spelled out with fragmentary quotations and paraphrases from
four of Aristotle's lost works, and we are given an extended
account of Plato's 'unwritten doctrines' according to which the
Ideas are numbers, namely the One and Indefinite Dyad. The
deliberations for and against the theory of Ideas recorded by
Alexander are more detailed than anything in Plato's dialogues and
tell us more than any other source how they were conceived in
Plato's most developed theory.
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