A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
William Smith, Ed.

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Ammonius

（*)Ammw/nios), son of HERMEAS, studied with his brother Heliodorus at Athens under Proclus (who died A. D. 484), and was the master of Simplicius, Asclepius Trallianus, John Philoponus, and Damascius.

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Works

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Commentaries on Plato and Ptolemy

(in Greek) on Plato and Ptolemy are lost, as well as many on Aristotle.

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Extant Works

His extant works are:

Commentaries on the Isagoge of Porphyry, or the Five Predicables

Editions

First published at Venice in 1500.

On the Categories of Aristotle,

and

De Intterpretatione

Editions

First published at Venice in 1503.

Further Information

See too ap. Alexand. Aphrodis. De Fato, p. 180, 8vo. Lond. 1658. The above-named Commentaries on Aristotle are also published in the Scholia in Aristot. ed. Brandis.

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Commentaries on Aristotle's Topics and Metaphysics and the

Methodus construendsdi Astrolabium

In MS. are his Commentaries on Aristotle's Topics and Metaphysics, and his Methodus construendsdi Astrolabium.

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Further Information

Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. v. p. 707.

[A.J.C]