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>Aedesia was a female philosopher of the Neoplatonic school who lived in Alexandria in the fifth century AD.[1] She was a relation of Syrianus and the wife of Hermias, 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 and Heliodorus.
>Ammonius’ mother Aedesia had been chosen as a young girl by Syrianus, a relative of hers, to marry Proclus, who would succeed their teacher Syrianus as head on the latter’s death in 437. When Proclus was kept from marrying her by ‘some god’, Aedesia was then married to Proclus’ fellow student Hermeias.

This is actually a tragedy tho, because Ammonius became a Sophist (even if his whoring out to the Christians preserved the Alexandria school until Islam), because Proclus was also said to have been extremely attractive, if they had got a bunch of Platonic children their beauty alone would have drawn thousands.