 Be that as it may, it is nevertheless clear that there is a rich pedigree in the history of the Platonic tradition regarding harmonisation. Simplicius continues and extends a program that was inaugurated by his teacher Ammonius, and also before him by Porphyry, and it was afterwards continued in Alexandria by Hierocles and Olympiodorus, more or less along the same lines as Simplicius. Karamanolis (2018: 36) argues convincingly that Porphyry (and before him some Middle Platonists) had already considered Aristotle a crucial part of the Platonic tradition: