Hermias (; sometimes
Hermias Philosophus or
Hermias the Philosopher; ) was an obscure
Christian Apologist, presumed to have lived in 3rd century. Nothing is known of him, except his name. He wrote a
Derision of gentile philosophers, a short parody on
Greek philosophy themes (the nature of the body, the
soul, the world). From
Paul's statement in the
First Epistle to the Corinthians that "all worldly knowledge is madness from God" he affirms that all philosophical doctrines come from the apostasy of the angels and therefore wrong and laughable. Hermias relies rather on
cynical and
skeptical culture critique and on philosophical biographies and anedoctes than in their real writings if he had ever read them.