HERMIAS. (I) A Greek philosopher of the Alexandrian school and a disciple of Proclus. His chief works were a study of the Isagoge of Porphyry and a commentary on Plato's Phaedrus (ed. P. Couvreur, Paris, 19o1 ). Unlike the majority of logicians of the time, he admitted the absolute validity of the second and third figures of the syllogism.
(2) A Christian apologist and philosopher who flourished about the end of the 4th century. Nothing is known about his life, but a small thesis OLaQVpµos rc.iv EEw has been preserved. In it he attacked pagan philosophy for its lack of logic in dealing with the root problems of life, the soul, the cosmos and the first cause. There is an edition by von Otto in the Corpus apologetarum (Jena, 1872).