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Title:
Philostratus: Lives of the sophists and Eunapius: Lives of the philosophers with an English translation by Wilmer Cave Wright.
Author:
Philostratus, the Athenian, active 2nd century-3rd century.

Philostratus, minor.

Philostratus, the Lemnian, active 3rd century, supposed author.

Fairbanks, Arthur, 1864-1944, translator.

Callistratus, active 3rd or 4th century. Descriptions.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1921.
Call Number:
PA4272 .A6 1921
Abstract:
Of the distinguished Lemnian family of Philostrati, Flavius Philostratus 'the Athenian', ca. 170–205 CE, was a Greek sophist who studied at Athens and later lived in Rome. He was author of the admirable Life of Apollonius of Tyana (Loeb nos. 16 and 17) and of Lives of the Sophists, a treasury of information about notable sophists. Philostratus's sketches of sophists in action yield a fascinating picture of the predominant influence of Sophistic in the educational, social, and political life of the Empire in the second and third centuries. The Greek sophist and historian Eunapius was born at Sardis in 347 CE, but went to Athens to study and lived much of his life there teaching rhetoric and possibly medicine. He was initiated into the mysteries and was hostile to Christians. His Lives of Philosophers and Sophists (mainly contemporary with himself) is our only source for knowledge of Neo-Platonism in the latter part of the fourth century.
ISBN:
9780674991491
Series:
The Loeb classical library ; . 134
Physical Description:
xiii, 595 pages ; 17 cm.
General Note:
Greek and English on opposite pages.
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