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Subject(s)

• Philostratus the Athenian active 2nd century-3rd century [Browse]
• Biographers—Greece—Biography [Browse]
• Sophists (Greek philosophy) [Browse]
• Biography as a literary form [Browse]

Series

• Routledge revivals. [More in this series]
• Routledge Revivals

Summary note

This study of Philostratus , first published in 1986, presents the Greek biographer's treatment of both sophists and holy men in the social and intellectual life of the early Roman Empire, which also displays his own distinctive literary personality as a superficial dilettante and an engrossing snob. Through him we gain a glimpse of the rhetorical schools and their rivalries, as well as a bizarre portrayal of the celebrated first-century holy man Apollonius of Tyana, long loathed by his later Christian press as a Pagan Christ. Rarely does a biographer's reputation revolve round the c

Notes

First published in 1986 by Croom Helm Ltd.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dedication; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Sophist and Biographer; 2 The Lives and their Subjects; 3 Pedantry and Paideia: Some Typical Encounters; 4 The Sophists: Gossip, Scandal, Diversion; 5 The Sophist on Sophists: The Lives and their Outlook; 6 Brief Lives: Some Philostratean Portraits; 7 Apollonius of Tyana: A Holy Man in a Sophist's World?; 8 Apollonius: Philosopher and Miracle-monger; 9 Damis: The Dubious Disciple Discovered?; 10 Towards the Historical Apollonius?
• 11 Apollonius in Wonderland: Some Exotic Travels12 'In Honour of Apollonius': A Cyropaedia for a Superman?; 13 Hero-Cults and Homer: The Heroicus; 14 Pictures, Wrestling-Schools, Tyrants, Love-Letters: The Philostratean Opuscula; 15 The Scope of a Sophist; Appendix 1 The Philostrati; Appendix 2 Herodes and Gordian; Appendix 3 Moeragenes; Appendix 4 The Pythagorean Doxai attributed to Apollonius; Select Bibliography; Index of Persons and Places

ISBN

• 1-317-74716-X
• 1-315-79532-9
• 9781315795324

OCLC

881571531

Doi

10.4324/9781315795324

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