Aedesia (Ancient Greek:Αἰδεσία) was aphilosopher of theNeoplatonic school who lived inAlexandria in the fifth century AD.[1] She was a relation ofSyrianus and the wife ofHermias, and was equally celebrated for her beauty and her virtues. After the death of her husband, she devoted herself to relieving the wants of the distressed and the education of her children,Ammonius andHeliodorus. She accompanied the latter toAthens, where they went to study philosophy, and was received with great distinction by all the philosophers there, and especially byProclus, to whom she had been betrothed by Syrianus, when she was quite young. She lived to a considerable age, and her funeral oration was pronounced byDamascius, who was then a young man, inhexameter verses.[2][3]
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