Ammonius Hermiae

5th-century Greek philosopher

Lived
435–517
Country
Byzantine Empire

Updated September 2026

About Ammonius Hermiae

Ammonius Hermiae was a Greek philosopher from Alexandria, Byzantine Egypt. A Neoplatonist, he was the son of the philosophers Hermias and Aedesia, the brother of Heliodorus of Alexandria and the grandson of Syrianus. Ammonius was a pupil of Proclus in Roman Athens, and taught at Alexandria for most of his life, having obtained a public chair in the 470s.

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