Ammonius
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Ammonius the philosopher · my master Ammonius
in the texts
Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur
Plutarch's own teacher, cited as a personal example of the technique of indirect reproof: he publicly punished his own son for a minor fault of appetite in order to silently rebuke his students for the same indulgence.
As my master Ammonius, perceiving once at his afternoon lecture that some of his scholars had dined more plentifully than became the moderation of students, immediately commanded one of his freedmen to take his own son and whip him.
Themistocles
Philosopher in whose school Plutarch was intimate with a later descendant of Themistocles.
For the lineal descendants of Themistocles there were also certain dignities maintained in Magnesia down to my time, and the revenues of these were enjoyed by a Themistocles of Athens who was my intimate and friend in the school of Ammonius the philosopher.