Ammonius is a masculine given name which may refer to:
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Ammonius Lithotomos Ammonius Lithotomos (; ; fl. 3rd century BC), of Alexandria, was a Greek lithotomist.
Work
Reported by Celsus, Ammonius invented the tools to break up "bladder stones".
:"A hook or crotchet is fixed upon the stone in such a way as easily to hold i ...
(3rd century BC), Alexandrian Greek lithotomist
* Ammonius of Alexandria, ancient Olympic athlete who won the
stadion race in the
131st Olympiad in 256 BCE
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Ammonius of Alexandria
Ammonius () of Alexandria, son of Ammonius, was an ancient Greek grammarian who lived around the 1st century BCE.
He was a pupil of a teacher named "Alexander" (possibly Alexander Polyhistor), and became one of the chief teachers in the grammatic ...
, ancient grammarian
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Ammonius of Athens
Ammonius of Athens (; ), 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, and introduces him discoursing on religion and sacred ri ...
(1st century AD), philosopher and teacher of Plutarch
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Ammonius Saccas
Ammonius Saccas (; ; 175 AD243 AD) was a Hellenistic Platonist self-taught philosopher from Alexandria, generally regarded as the precursor of Neoplatonism or one of its founders. He is mainly known as the teacher of Plotinus, whom he taught f ...
(3rd century AD), Alexandrian Neoplatonist philosopher and teacher of Plotinus
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Ammonius of Alexandria (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.
Life
Eusebius, who is followed by Jerome, asserted that Ammoniu ...
(3rd century AD), Christian writer confused with Ammonius Saccas
* Ammonius the Hermit, called
Saint Amun
Ammon, Amun (), Ammonas (), Amoun (), or Ammonius the Hermit (; ) was a 4th-century Christian ascetic and the founder of one of the most celebrated monastic communities in Egypt. He was subsequently declared a saint. He was one of the most vene ...
, 4th century abbot and desert father
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Ammonius Grammaticus
Ammonius Grammaticus (; ; ) was a 4th-century Egyptian priest.
In 391, he was involved in a violent revolt centred at Alexandria's Serapeum, where the pagan rebels tortured and killed captured Christians. After the suppression of the revolt and t ...
(), Egyptian priest from Alexandria, supposed author of a grammatical treatise
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Ammonius Hermiae
Ammonius Hermiae (; ; – between 517 and 526) was a Greek philosopher from Alexandria in the eastern Roman empire during Late Antiquity. A Neoplatonist, he was the son of the philosophers Hermias and Aedesia, the brother of Heliodorus of Alex ...
(5th century AD), Alexandrian philosopher
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Ammonius (Alexandrian monk) ( 5th century AD)
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