* Ammonius Saccas ( 3rd century AD )

Ammonius Saccas ( 3rd century AD ) () was a Greek philosopher from Alexandria who was often referred to as one of the founders of Neoplatonism.

Not much is known about the life of Ammonius Saccas.

The most famous pupil of Ammonius Saccas was Plotinus who studied under Ammonius for eleven years.

One way to explain much of the confusion concerning Ammonius is to assume that there were two people called Ammonius: Ammonius Saccas who taught Plotinus, and an Ammonius the Christian who wrote biblical texts.

It is quite possible that Ammonius Saccas taught both Origens.

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

* Ammonius Saccas

" Ronald Hathaway provides a table listing most of the major identifications of Dionysius: e. g., Ammonius Saccas, Dionysius the Great, Peter the Fuller, Dionysius the Scholastic, Severus of Antioch, Sergius of Reshaina, unnamed Christian followers of everyone from Origen of Alexandria to Basil of Caesarea, Eutyches to Proclus.

* Ammonius Saccas, Greek philosopher ( possible date )

His teacher was Ammonius Saccas and he is of the Platonic tradition.

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

* Ammonius Saccas, Neoplatonic philosopher ( approximate date )

* Origen, disciple of Ammonius Saccas, founder of Neoplatonism, is exiled in Caesarea.

* Ammonius Saccas renews Greek philosophy by creating Neoplatonism.

* Neoplatonism: Plotinus ( Egyptian ), Ammonius Saccas, Porphyry ( Syrian ), Zethos ( Arab ), Iamblichus ( Syrian ), Proclus

This collection, which includes the Pœmandres and some addresses of Hermes to disciples Tat, Ammon and Asclepius, was said to have originated in the school of Ammonius Saccas and to have passed through the keeping of Michael Psellus: it is preserved in fourteenth century manuscripts.

Ammonius Saccas in the 3rd century tried to reconcile differing religious philosophies.

* Ammonius Lithotomos ( 3rd century BC ), Greek lithotomist

* Ammonius of Alexandria ( Christian ) ( 3rd century AD ), Christian writer confused with Ammonius Saccas

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

* Heliodorus of Alexandria 5th century Neoplatonist philosopher, and brother of Ammonius Hermiae

* Ammonius Grammaticus ( 4th century ), ancient Greek grammarian

* Ammonius of Athens ( 1st century AD ), philosopher and teacher of Plutarch

* Ammonius Hermiae ( 5th century AD ), Alexandrian philosopher

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.

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.

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

c. 240 ), a Neoplatonic philosopher ; see Ammonius Saccas

* Ammonius ( genus ), a genus of the spider family Barychelidae

* Ammonius ( crater ), a lunar crater

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 Hermiae (; c. 440-c. 520 ) was a Greek philosopher, and the son of the Neoplatonist philosophers Hermias and Aedesia.

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 Nemesius, a bishop and Neoplatonist c. 400, Ammonius held that the soul was immaterial.

Simplicius was a disciple of Ammonius Hermiae, and Damascius, and was consequently one of the last members of the Neoplatonist school.

Ammonius Hermiae reported that Maximus was a pupil of the Neoplatonist " Hierius.

The French scholar Pierre Courcelle has argued that Boethius studied at Alexandria with the Neo-Platonist philosopher Ammonius Hermiae.

He was a pupil and sometime amanuensis to the Neoplatonic philosopher Ammonius Hermiae, who had studied at Athens under Proclus.