Ammon’s List of Scholarchs

Abstract

In the preambles to two of the drafts of his petition to the catholicus Flavius Sisinnius in December A.D. 348 (7.3f and 13.9f) Ammon says of himself “While I myself, to be sure, know that a quiet life free from intrigue befits those educated in philosophy and rhetoric...” As if to document his claim, he has left us in his archive the fragments of a private memorandum written in his own informal hand listing the principal philosophers with whose works he had become acquainted in the advanced education he had received, presumably in Panopolis, in preparation for his profession as scholasticus. The hand of the memorandum is so similar to that of his drafts of 348 that it appears to have been written not long before. The verso is uninscribed.