Ammonius

One way to explain much of the confusion concerning Ammonius is to assume that there were two people called Ammonius: Ammonius Saccas who taught Plotinus, and an Ammonius the Christian who wrote biblical texts.

Later Christian writers stated that Ammonius was a Christian, but it is now generally assumed that there was a different Ammonius of Alexandria who wrote biblical texts.

This is, according to this interpretation, supported by the fact that Ammianus Marcellinus refers to him as "Saccas Ammonius", thus as the "Sacian Ammonius", ibidem which makes any reading as denoting "sakkos" impossible.

Ammonius signed the decretal letter of the Council of Constantinople in 518 against Severus of Antioch and others.

Ammonius was subsequently captured and ordered to be tortured for his actions, during which he died.

Damascius, Philosophos Historia, 118B, Athanassiadi Damascius, who scolds Ammonius for the agreement that he made, does not say what the concessions were, but it may have involved limitations on the doctrines he could teach or promote.

Eusebius, History of the Church, vi, 19. However, we are told by Longinus that Ammonius wrote nothing, Longinus, quoted by Porphyry, Life of Plotinus, xx.

Eventually, they returned to Alexandria, where Ammonius, as head of the Neoplatonist school in Alexandria, lectured on Plato and Aristotle for the rest of his life.

However, according to Scholasticus, the Christian community displayed a general lack of enthusiasm for Ammonius's case for martyrdom.

It is quite possible that Ammonius Saccas taught both Origens.

Plotinus is noted as the founder of Neoplatonism (along with his teacher Ammonius Saccas ).

The friend, understanding the desire of his heart, sent him to Ammonius, whom he had not so far tried.

The monks paid little attention to Orestes's claims of Christianity, and one of the monks named Ammonius struck Orestes in the head with a rock, causing him to bleed profusely.