Ammonios Sakkas

Japanese: アンモニオス･サッカス（英語表記）Ammōnios Sakkas

A mystical philosopher active in Alexandria in the first half of the 3rd century. His birth and death years, birthplace, and academic lineage are unknown. Given his nickname, "theodidaklōs," or "he who is taught by God," he was likely a natural mystic or an initiator of mysteries. Like Socrates, he left no written works, but he produced three great masters of late antiquity under his disciples: Plotinus, founder of the Neoplatonic school, Christian theologian Origen, and rhetorician Longinus. [Onuma Tadahiro]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

3世紀前半にアレクサンドリアで活躍した神秘主義哲学者。生没年，出身，学統は不詳。〈神より教わりし人theodidaklōs〉という異名をもつことから考え，生来の神秘家だったか，密儀伝授の導師だったらしい。ソクラテスと同様，まったく著作を遺さなかったが，その門下に古代末期の三大巨匠を生んだ。新プラトン学派の創立者プロティノス，キリスト教神学者オリゲネス，修辞学者ロンギノスがそれである。【大沼忠弘】

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