Ammonius of Athens

Short description: 1st century AD Greek philosopher

Ammonius of Athens (/əˈmoʊniəs/; Greek: Ἀμμώνιος), sometimes called Ammonius the Peripatetic, was a philosopher who taught in Athens in the 1st century AD. He was a teacher of Plutarch, who praises his great learning,[1] and introduces him discoursing on religion and sacred rites.[2] Plutarch wrote a biography of him, which is no longer extant, and also mentioned Ammonius master in other works like the De E apud Delphos[3][4] within the treaty series Moralia. From the information supplied by Plutarch, Ammonius was clearly an expert in the works of Aristotle, but he may have nevertheless been a Platonist philosopher rather than a Peripatetic.

He may be the Ammonius of Lamprae (in Attica) quoted by Athenaeus[5] as the author of a book on altars and sacrifices (Greek: Περὶ βωμῶν καὶ Θυσιῶν). Athenaeus also mentions a work on Athenian courtesans (Greek: Περὶ τῶν Ἀθηνσινῆ Ἑταιρίδων) as written by an Ammonius.[6]

## References

1. ↑ Plutarch, Symp., iii. 1.
2. ↑ Plutarch, Symp., ix. 15.
3. ↑ C. P. Jones (1967). "The Teacher of Plutarch". Harvard Studies in Classical Philology (Department of the Classics, Harvard University) 71: 205–213. doi:10.2307/310764. ISSN 0073-0688. OCLC 5548753408. https://www.jstor.org/stable/310764. Retrieved June 8, 2021.
4. ↑ Plutarch. "2" (in Greek, English). De E apud Delphos. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0243.
5. ↑ Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, xi.
6. ↑ Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, xiii.

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