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.
Works
Commentaries on Plato and Ptolemy
(in Greek) on Plato and Ptolemy are lost, as well as many on Aristotle.
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
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.
In MS. are his Commentaries on Aristotle's Topics and Metaphysics, and his
Methodus construendsdi Astrolabium.
Further Information
Fabric.
Bibl. Graec. vol. v. p. 707.
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