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 collection of treatises known as 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]
^Plutarch, Symp., iii. 1.
^Plutarch, Symp., ix. 15.
^C. P. Jones (1967). "The Teacher of Plutarch". Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. 71. Department of the Classics, Harvard University: 205–213. doi:10.2307/310764. ISSN 0073-0688. JSTOR 310764. OCLC 5548753408. Retrieved June 8, 2021.
^Plutarch. "2". De E apud Delphos (in Greek and English). Translated by Cole Babbitt, Frank.
^Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, xi.
^Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, xiii.
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