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 cites Iamblichus who said knowledge is intermediate between the knower and the known, since it is the activity of the knower concerning the known.

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.

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.

It is quite possible that Ammonius Saccas taught both Origens.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

His father's name is given as Ammonius.

Lithoclastic cystotomy is attributed to Ammonius Lithotomos ( stone-cutter ) of Alexandria, Egypt.

* Ammonius ( crater ), a lunar crater

The diameter of this ghost crater is nearly double that of Ammonius, and is currently identified as Ptolemaeus B.

The crater Ammonius on the floor of Ptolemaeus.

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* Ammonius: On Aristotle's On Interpretation 9, with Boethius: On Aristotle's On Interpretation 9, translated by D. Blank ( Ammonius ) and N. Kretzmann ( Boethius ).

" 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:

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

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.

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.

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

Ammonius ' father, Hermias, died when he was a child, and his mother, Aedesia, raised him and his brother, Heliodorus, in Alexandria.

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

The resultant structure is called a simple crater, and it remains bowl-shaped and superficially similar to the transient crater.

The bowl-shaped outflow is the simplest form of a water clock and is known to have existed in Babylon and in Egypt around the 16th century BC.

In the western musical tradition, the most usual shape is a cylinder, although timpani, for example, use bowl-shaped shells.

Kansas City proper is bowl-shaped and is surrounded to the north and south by limestone and bedrock cliffs that were carved by glaciers.

It is near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers.

In Mexican usage, tostada usually refers to a flat or bowl-shaped ( like a bread bowl ) tortilla that is toasted or deep fried.

Nippenose Valley is uniquely bowl-shaped and consists of a doubly plunging anticline.

Nippenose Valley is uniquely bowl-shaped and consists of a doubly plunging anticline.

* 211. 1 Instruments in which the body of the drum is dish-or bowl-shaped ( kettle drums )

A sink ( also sinker, hand basin and wash basin ) is a bowl-shaped plumbing fixture used for washing hands, for dishwashing or other purposes.

In the toroidal aerospike the spike is bowl-shaped with the exhaust exiting in a ring around the outer rim.

The krar or kraar is a five-or six-stringed bowl-shaped lyre from Eritrea and Ethiopia.

It is generally agreed that the evolution of handmade lamps moved from bowl-shaped to saucer-shaped, then from saucer with a nozzle, to a closed bowl with a spout.

The nest is a bowl-shaped structure made of sticks and lined with softer material such as grass and bark.

Each facility is situated in semi-mountainous, bowl-shaped terrain to help shield against radio frequency interference.

The nest is bowl-shaped, built with aquatic vegetation and lined with down, in a dry location near open water.

The lip is divided in a bowl-shaped hypochile, with the outer surface greenish-white and threaded with dark veins.

Traditionally it is sipped out of small, handle-less, bowl-shaped cups or saucers, called piyala.

Topf can be translated as bowl and is commonly used for round, bowl-shaped springs.

In terms of relief, Velika Močila is a very interesting bowl-shaped valley at an altitude 850 m asl, surrounded by Crni vrh ( 1 110 m asl ), Škiljina kosa ( 1 015 m asl ) and Zeleni brig ( 842 m asl ), while Borovnik, named after the black pine forest, stretches along the south edge.

Tom Servo is a red puppet that has a gumball machine ( Carousel Executive Snack Dispenser ) for a head, a body composed of a toy " Money Lover Barrel " coin bank and a toy car engine block, and a bowl-shaped hovercraft skirt ( a Halloween ' Boo Bowl ') instead of legs.

The HGA ( a parabolic antenna ) is the large bowl-shaped object.

The bowl-shaped outflow is the simplest form of a water clock and is known to have existed in Babylon and in Egypt around the 16th century BC.