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Ammonius Saccas
Ammonius Saccas was a Greek philosopher who taught in Alexandria in the first half of the third century CE. He left no writings, but his pupils included Plotinus, who studied with him for about eleven years, and probably the Christian theologian Origen. He is often regarded as a forerunner of Neoplatonism.
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