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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, and introduces him discoursing on religion and sacred rites. 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 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 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.

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. 71. Department of the Classics, Harvard University: 205–213. doi:10.2307/310764. ISSN 0073-0688. JSTOR 310764. OCLC 5548753408. Retrieved June 8, 2021.
4. Plutarch. "2". De E apud Delphos (in Greek and English). Translated by Cole Babbitt, Frank.
5. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, xi.
6. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, xiii.

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