Epistolae, Gr.; Briefe, Engl

Epistolae, Gr.; Briefe, Engl
Author: Apollonius (of Tyana.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1979
Genre: Authors, Greek
ISBN:

Thirteen Halloween poems for beginning readers.

The Lives of the Sophists

The Lives of the Sophists
Author: Philostratus (the Athenian)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 656
Release: 1921
Genre: Classical literature
ISBN:

PHILOSTRATUS AND EUNAPIUS. (a) Of the distinguished Lemnian family of Philostrati, Flavius Philostratus, 'the Athenian', was a Greek sophist (professor), c. A.D. 170-205, 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 Lives of the Sophists (which are really impressions of investigators alert but less fond of scientific method and discovery than of stylish presentation or things known), one part concerning some older, the other some later 'provessors'. Other extant works of this Philostratus are Letters and Gymnasticus, but the Heroicus or Heroica is apparently by another Philostratus, and the Eikones (Imagines, skilful descriptions of pictures, Loeb No. 256) were probably by two Philostrati, on being the son of Nervianus and born c. A.D. 190, the other his grandson who wrote c. AD. 300. (b) The Greek Sophist and historian Eunapius was born at Sardis in A.D. 347, 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. Lost is his historical work (covering the years A.D. 270-404) but for excerpts and the use of it made by Zosimmus, but we have his Lives of Philosophers and Sophists mainly contemporary whth himself. Eunapius is our only source of our knowledge of Neo-Platonism in the latter part of the fourth century A.D.

Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Author: Stanley K. Stowers
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780664250157

Making use of letters--both formal and personal--that have been preserved through the ages, Stanley Stowers analyzes the cultural setting within which Christianity arose. The Library of Early Christianity is a series of eight outstanding books exploring the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts in which the New Testament developed.

Philostratus (Routledge Revivals)

Philostratus (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Graham Anderson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2014-06-17
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 131774716X

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 charge that he forged his principal source. Graham Anderson’s account produces new evidence which supports Philostratus’ credibility, but it also extends the charges of ignorance and bias in his handling of fellow-sophists. Philostratus is intended for any reader interested in the social, cultural and literary history of the Roman Empire as well as the professional classicist.

Theios Sophistes

Theios Sophistes
Author: Kristoffel Demoen
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2009
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004171096

In this collection of interpretative essays on Flavius Philostratusa (TM) "Vita Apollonii," leading scholars and younger critics make for a combination of methodological continuity and innovation. The wide range of approaches does justice to the texta (TM)s high level of literary, historical and philosophical-religious sophistication.