Ammonios

Ammonios is otherwise little attested and is known chiefly as a recipient of five letters from Isidore of Pelusium, the monk and ascetic teacher whose large surviving correspondence (some two thousand short letters of moral, ascetic, and exegetical counsel) circulated in the eastern Roman world of the early fifth century AD. The name Ammonios was extremely common among Greek-speaking Christians in late antique Egypt, so this correspondent cannot be securely identified with any of the other bearers of the name. From the context of Isidore's collection he was most plausibly a cleric, monk, or layman in or near Pelusium and the eastern Nile Delta during the first decades of the fifth century, addressed by Isidore in the manner typical of the collection. Beyond his appearance as Isidore's correspondent, nothing certain is known of his career, dates, or offices.