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Ammonius

Ammonius

c. 440 CE–c. 520 CE · Alexandria

Ammonius, son of Hermias, was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher active in Alexandria around the late 5th and early 6th century CE. A pupil of Proclus, he taught for many years and produced influential commentaries on the logical works of Aristotle, and his lectures were recorded and extended by notable students such as John Philoponus and Simplicius. He helped make Alexandria a major center for the study of Aristotle.

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AlexandriaEgypt

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About Alexandria

Alexandria (al-Iskandariyya) is the great Mediterranean port-city of northern Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE and a leading centre of learning in antiquity. After the Muslim conquest of Egypt (642) it remained a major commercial and scholarly hub; the Shadhili Sufi Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari (d. 1309) took his nisba from the city, and the modernist reformer Muhammad Abduh (d. 1905) was active in Egypt's intellectual life there and in Cairo.

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Eutocius, John Philoponus, David the Invincible, Olympiodorus, Elias Neoplatonicus

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