Free standard shipping on all orders
  • Visa
  • Master Card
  • American Express
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • JCB

Philostratus (Routledge Revivals): Biography and Belles Lettres in the Third Century A.D. book cover

1st Edition

Philostratus (Routledge Revivals) Biography and Belles Lettres in the Third Century A.D.

By Graham Anderson Copyright 1986
336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
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... Read more

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. Apopllonius: Philosopher and Miracle-monger 9. Damis: The Dubious Disciple Discovered? 10. Towards the Historical Apopllonius? 11. Apopllonius in Wonderland: Some Exotic Travels 12. ‘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

Biography

Graham Anderson

Add to Cart