Ammon
deity figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Ammon the place
in the texts
Alcibiades 2
Oracular god consulted by the Athenians, whose terse reply favors reverence over costly ritual.
Thus saith Ammon to the Athenians:
But the gods are not to be won by bribes, and so they despise all these things, as Ammon and the holy prophet say.
So the Athenians, in their annoyance at this result, and at a loss for some means of finding a deliverance from the trouble they were in, took counsel together and decided that the best thing they could do was to send and inquire of Ammon;
Statesman
The god invoked by Theodorus in an oath, described as his own special divinity.
By Ammon, our special divinity, that is a good hit, Socrates;
De Pallio
Deity described as coming from Libya to Osiris, rich in sheep, within the reported Egyptian tradition.
Come now, take from your own store what the Egyptians relate, and Alexander sets in order, and his mother reads, concerning the time of Osiris, when Ammon comes to him out of Libya, rich in sheep.