Ammonius Hermiae (Greek: Ἀμμώνιος ὁ Ἑρμείου, Ammōnios ho Hermeiou, "Ammonius, son of Hermias"; c.–c. – c.) was a Greek philosopher from Alexandria in the eastern Roman empire during Late Antiquity. 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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