Ammonius of Alexandria

3rd century Alexandrian Christian philosopher

Ammonius of Alexandria is assumed to be a Christian philosopher who lived in the 3rd century. He is possibly Ammonius Saccas, the Neoplatonist philosopher, also from Alexandria.

Related people

Origen teacher of · traditional

Places

Alexandria birth

How we know

Recorded as a historical figure.

Ecclesiastical History 1 claim — The two Ammonii

Also recorded as

Ammonius Saccas possibly same

Glosses

The two Ammonii Origen had a teacher named Ammonius and so did Plotinus, and for seventeen centuries nobody has been able to say for certain whether that is one sentence or two. Porphyry, writing against the Christians, said that…