Philostratus : biography and belles lettres in the third century A.D.Anderson, GrahamEnglishBookThis 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 c2014Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2014.Philostratus the Athenian active 2nd century-3rd centuryBiographers—Greece—BiographySophists (Greek philosophy)Biography as a literary formBook97813177471619781315795324