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Ammonius and Alexandria
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.
: For the author of the early Gospel synopsis please see: Ammonius of Alexandria
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.
The people of Alexandria, however, came to his help, captured Ammonius and put the monks to flight.
However, the Christian population of Alexandria knew that Ammonius had been killed for his assault and not for his faith, and Cyril was obliged to remain silent about the events.
* Ammonius of Alexandria ( Christian )
" 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.
Socrates ' teachers, noted in his prefaces, were the grammarians Helladius and Ammonius, who came to Constantinople from Alexandria, where they had been pagan priests.
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.
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.
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 ).
* 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.
Lithoclastic cystotomy is attributed to Ammonius Lithotomos ( stone-cutter ) of Alexandria, Egypt.
Studied under Clement of Alexandria, and probably also Ammonius Saccus ( Plotinus ' teacher ).
He studied at Alexandria under Ammonius Saccas and Origen the Pagan, and taught for thirty years in Athens, one of his pupils being Porphyry.
After Longinus had learnt all he could from Ammonius at Alexandria and the other philosophers whom he met in his travels, he returned to Athens.
2a Christ receives a book from two monks ( dedication ) / The saints Eusebius of Caesarea and Ammonius of Alexandria

Ammonius and Christian
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.
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.
To add to the confusion, it seems that Ammonius had two pupils called Origen: Origen the Christian, and Origen the Pagan.
* Ammonius Saccas-Dictionary of Christian Biography

Ammonius and 3rd
* Ammonius Saccas ( 3rd century AD )
Ammonius Saccas in the 3rd century tried to reconcile differing religious philosophies.
* Ammonius Lithotomos ( 3rd century BC ), Greek lithotomist
* Ammonius Saccas ( 3rd century AD ), Neoplatonist philosopher and teacher of Plotinus

Ammonius and century
Hierocles, writing in the 5th century, states that Ammonius ' fundamental doctrine was that Plato and Aristotle were in full agreement with each other:
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 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 and ),
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.
* Neoplatonism: Plotinus ( Egyptian ), Ammonius Saccas, Porphyry ( Syrian ), Zethos ( Arab ), Iamblichus ( Syrian ), Proclus
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.

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