* 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.

* Stanford article on Ammonius Saccas.

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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.

* 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Ammonius Saccas ( 3rd century AD ), Neoplatonist philosopher and teacher of Plotinus

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

The Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus taught that above the gods of traditional belief was " The One " and polytheist grammarian Maximus of Madauros even stated that only a mad person would deny the existence of the supreme God.

Julian studied Neoplatonism in Asia Minor in 351, at first under Aedesius, the philosopher, and then Neoplatonic theurgy from Aedesius ' student, Maximus of Ephesus.

* Porphyry ( philosopher ) ( 234-c. 305 ), a Neoplatonic philosopher

The Neoplatonic movement ( though Plotinus would have simply referred to himself as a philosopher of Plato ) seems to be motivated by the desire of Plotinus to revive the pagan philosophical tradition.

* Porphyry, Neoplatonic philosopher ( d. c. 305 )

However, in the late 3rd century Porphyry, an anti-Christian Neoplatonic philosopher, claimed in his treatise Against the Christians that the miracles of Jesus were not unique, and mentioned Apollonius as a non-Christian who had accomplished similar achievements.

* Mir Damad, 17th century Islamic scholar and Neoplatonic philosopher

Born in Constantinople around 420, he went to Alexandria to study in the school of the Neoplatonic philosopher Proclus ; among his fellow students there were Marcellinus ( magister militum and governor of Illyricum ), Flavius Illustrius Pusaeus ( Praetorian prefect of the East and Consul in 467 ), Messius Phoebus Severus ( Consul in 470 and praefectus urbi ), and Pamprepius ( Pagan poet ).

The Neoplatonic philosopher Porphyry, however, took an allegorical view of the Saturnalia.

* Marsilio Ficino ( 1433 – 1499 ) Influential Italian humanist philosopher who revived Neoplatonism and was a leader in the Renaissance ; translated all of Plato's and Plotinus ' works into Latin, as well as many Neoplatonic authors and the Corpus Hermeticum.

One of the boldest and most radical attempts to reformulate the Neoplatonic concepts into Sufism arose with the philosopher Ibn Arabi, who traveled widely in Spain and North Africa.

325 ) was a Syrian Neoplatonist philosopher who determined the direction taken by later Neoplatonic philosophy.

305 ) was a Neoplatonic philosopher who was born in Tyre.

Solomon ibn Gabirol, also Solomon ben Judah (, Shelomo ben Yehuda ibn Gabirol ;, Abu Ayyūb Suleiman ibn Yahya ibn Jabirūl ;, a corruption of Ibn Gibran ), was an Andalusian Hebrew poet and Jewish philosopher with a Neoplatonic bent.

Gaius Marius Victorinus ( also known as Victorinus Afer, fourth century ) was a Roman grammarian, rhetorician and Neoplatonic philosopher.