Ammonius Grammaticus
Ammonius Grammaticus (/əˈmoʊniəs/; Greek: Ἀμμώνιος Γραμματικός) was a 4th-century Egyptian priest.
In 391, he was involved in a violent revolt centred at Alexandria's Serapeum, where the pagan rebels tortured and killed captured Christians. After the suppression of the revolt and the destruction of the temple, Ammonius fled to Constantinople, where he became the tutor of the ecclesiastical historian Socrates.[1]
Ammonius was formerly identified as the author of a treatise titled Peri homoíōn kai diaphórōn léxeōn (
References
[edit]- ^ Socrates Scholasticus, Hist. Eccl. 5.16.
- ^ Chisholm 1911.
Attribution:
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ammonius Grammaticus". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 864. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the