AMMONIUS HERMIAE (5th

century A.D.)  , Greek philosopher, the son of Hermias or Hermeias, a fellow-pupil of Proclus . He taught at Alexandria, and had among his scholars Asclepius, John Philoponus, Damascius and Simplicius . His commentaries on Plato and Ptolemy are lost . Those on Aristotle are all that remain of his reputedly numerous writings . Of the commentaries we have—(r) one on the Isagoge of Porphyry (Venice, 1500 fol.); (2) one on the Categories (Venice, 1503 fol.), the authenticity of which is doubted by Brandis; (3) one on the De Interpretatione (Venice, 1503 fol.) . They are printed in Brandis's scholia to Aristotle, forming the fourth volume of the Berlin Aristotle; they are also edited (1891–1899) in A . Busse's Commentaria in Aristot . Graeca . The special section on fate was published separately by J . C . Orelli, Alex . A phrod., Ammonii, et aliorum de Fato quae supersunt (Zurich, 1824) .

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life of Aristotle, ascribed to Ammonius, but with more accuracy to John Philoponus, is often prefixed to editions of Aristotle . It has been printed separately, with Latin translation and scholia, at Leiden, 1621, at Helmstadt, 1666, and at Paris, r85o . Other commentaries on the Topics and the first six books of the Meta-physics still exist in manuscript . Of the value of the logical writings of Ammonius there are various opinions . K . Prantl speaks of them with great, but hardly merited, contempt . For a list of his works see J . A . Fabricius, Bibliotheca Graeca, v . 704-707 ; C . A . Brandis, Aber d .

Reihenf. d . Richer d . Aristot . Org., 283 f.; K . Prantl, Gesch. d . Logik, i . 642 .