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Ammonius and On
* Ammonius: On Aristotle Categories
, translated by S
. M
. Cohen
and G
. B
. Matthews
.
* Ammonius: On Aristotle's On Interpretation 1-8
, translated by D. Blank.
Ammonius Grammaticus is the supposed author of a treatise titled Peri homoíōn kai diaphórōn léxeōn
( περὶ ὁμοίων καὶ διαφόρων λέξεων
, On the Differences of Synonymous Expressions ), of whom nothing is known
.

In the preface to his work
On Ends
, which is preserved in Porphyry's Life of Plotinus
, Longinus himself relates that from his early age he made many journeys
with his parents
, that he visited many countries
and became acquainted
with all those who at the time enjoyed a great reputation as philosophers
, among whom the most illustrious were
Ammonius Saccas
, Origen the Pagan
, Plotinus
, and Amelius
.
* On Synonyms
, of which there is extant an epitome
by Ammonius Grammaticus
.

Philoponus ’ early writings are based on lectures given
by Ammonius, but gradually he established his own independent thinking in his commentaries
and critiques of Aristotle ’ s
On the Soul
and Physics
.
Ammonius and with

" From that day he stayed continually
with Ammonius and acquired so complete a training in philosophy that he became eager to make acquaintance
with the Persian philosophical discipline
and that prevailing among the Indians
.

Hierocles
, writing in the 5th century
, states that
Ammonius ' fundamental doctrine was that Plato
and Aristotle were in full agreement
with each other
:

Plotinus is noted as the founder of Neoplatonism
( along
with his teacher
Ammonius Saccas
).

There he was dissatisfied
with every teacher he encountered until an acquaintance suggested he listen to the ideas of
Ammonius Saccas
.

He had received his training partly in Alexandria
, under
Ammonius, partly in Athens
, as a disciple of Damascius ;
and it was probably in one of these two cities that he subsequently took up his abode ; for
, with the exception of these cities
and Constantinople
, it would have been difficult to find a town which possessed the collections of books he needed
, and he is unlikely to have gone to Constantinople
.

However
, Papias's millennialism
( according to Anastasius of Sinai
, along
with Clement of Alexandria
and Ammonius he understood the Six Days
( Hexaemeron
) and the account of Paradise as referring mystically to Christ
and His Church
) was nearer in spirit to the actual Christianity of the sub-apostolic age
, especially in western Anatolia
( e
. g., Montanism ), than Eusebius realized
.

The French scholar Pierre Courcelle has argued that
Boethius studied at Alexandria
with the Neo-Platonist philosopher
Ammonius Hermiae
.
Ammonius is a bowl-shaped lunar impact crater
with a slightly raised rim
.
* Ammonius of Alexandria
( Christian
) ( 3rd century AD ), Christian writer confused
with Ammonius Saccas
Ammonius and by

In addition
, there are some notes of
Ammonius ' lectures written
by various students which also survive
:

This conversion is contested
by the Christian writers Jerome
and Eusebius
, who state that
Ammonius remained a Christian throughout his lifetime
:

However we are told
by Longinus that
Ammonius wrote nothing
, and if
Ammonius was the principal influence on Plotinus
, then it is unlikely that
Ammonius would have been a Christian
.

that the real author was Herennius Philo of Byblus
, who was born during the reign of Nero
and lived till the reign of Hadrian
, and that the treatise in its present form is a revision prepared
by a later Byzantine editor
, whose name may have been
Ammonius.

Besides
Ammonius, Plotinus was also influenced
by the works of Alexander of Aphrodisias
, Numenius
, and various Stoics
.
* Ammonius Saccas renews Greek philosophy
by creating Neoplatonism
.

The commentary on de Caelo was written before that on the Physica Auscultatio
, and probably not in Alexandria
, since he mentions in it an astronomical observation made during his stay in that city
by Ammonius.

Commentaries on the Almagest were written
by Theon of Alexandria
( extant ), Pappus of Alexandria
( only fragments survive ),
and Ammonius Hermiae
( lost
).

Of the first two Longinus was a pupil for a long time
, but Longinus did not embrace the Neoplatonism then being developed
by Ammonius and Plotinus
, rather he continued as a Platonist of the old type
.

The text includes
, in addition to the Gospels
, the letter of Jerome to Pope Damasus
( known
by its first two words Novum opus ), the prologue to Jerome's commentary on the Book of Matthew
, the letter of Eusebius of Caesarea to Carpianus
( Ammonius quidam
) in which Eusebius explains the use of his Canon Tables
, prologues to each of the Gospels
, tables of capitula for each of the Gospels
, tables for each of the Gospels indicating the festivals at which portions of that Gospel should be read
, and the Eusebian Canon tables
.
Ammonius and .
Ammonius asks Plutarch what he
, being a Boeotian
, has to say for Cadmus
, the Phoenician who reputedly settled in Thebes
and introduced the alphabet to Greece
, placing alpha first because it is the Phoenician name for ox — which
, unlike Hesiod
, the Phoenicians considered not the second or third
, but the first of all necessities
.
Ammonius Hermiae (; c
. 440-c
. 520
) was a Greek philosopher
, and the son of the Neoplatonist philosophers Hermias
and Aedesia
.
Ammonius ' father
, Hermias
, died when he was a child
, and his mother
, Aedesia
, raised him
and his brother
, Heliodorus
, in Alexandria
.

Eventually
, they returned to Alexandria
, where
Ammonius, as head of the Neoplatonist school in Alexandria
, lectured on Plato
and Aristotle for the rest of his life
.

According to Damascius
, during the persecution of the pagans at Alexandria in the late 480's
, Ammonius made concessions to the Christian authorities so that he could continue his lectures
.

Damascius
, who scolds
Ammonius for the agreement that he made
, does not say what the concessions were
, but it may have involved limitations on the doctrines he could teach or promote
.

In De Interpretatione
, Ammonius contends that divine foreknowledge makes void the contingent
.
Ammonius cites Iamblichus who said knowledge is intermediate between the knower
and the known
, since it is the activity of the knower concerning the known
.
Ammonius Saccas
( 3rd century AD
) () was a Greek philosopher from Alexandria who was often referred to as one of the founders of Neoplatonism
.

Later Christian writers stated that
Ammonius was a Christian
, but it is now generally assumed that there was a different
Ammonius of Alexandria who wrote biblical texts
.

Not much is known about the life of
Ammonius Saccas
.
Ammonius and ).

Studied under Clement of Alexandria
, and probably also
Ammonius Saccus
( Plotinus ' teacher
).
On and Aristotle's

"
On Aristotle's Politics ", in The City
and Man
, Chicago ; Rand McNally
.
* On Aristotle's Categories
( anonymous writer
)
* On Aristotle's Prior Analytics I
( anonymous writer
)
* On Aristotle's Metaphysics 1-7
( written
by Asclepius
)
* On Aristotle's Prior Analytics
( written
by John Philoponus
)
* On Aristotle's Posterior Analytics
( written
by John Philoponus
)
* On Aristotle's On Generation
and Corruption
( written
by John Philoponus
)
* On Aristotle's On the Soul
( written
by John Philoponus
)

Two treatises are sometimes erroneously attributed to him
, one
On Emotions
, the other a commentary on
Aristotle's Ethics
( really
by Constantine Palaeocapa in the 16th century
, or
by John Callistus of Thessalonica
).

Kepler described his new astronomy as " celestial physics ", as " an excursion into
Aristotle's Metaphysics ",
and as " a supplement to
Aristotle's On the Heavens ", transforming the ancient tradition of physical cosmology
by treating astronomy as part of a universal mathematical physics
.

The earliest known formulation is
Aristotle's principle of non-contradiction
, first proposed in
On Interpretation, where he says that of two contradictory propositions
( i
. e
. where one proposition is the negation of the other
) one must be true
, and the other false
.

For an expanded account of Zeno's arguments as presented
by Aristotle
, see Simplicius ' commentary
On Aristotle's Physics
.
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