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Record Nr.

UNISA996201329203316

Autore

Philostratus

Titolo

Apollonius of Tyana . Volume II Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Books 5-8 / / Philostratus ; Christopher P. Jones, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Harvard University Press, , 2005

ISBN

0-674-99614-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (448 pages)

Collana

Loeb classical library ; ; LCL017

Disciplina

885.01

Soggetti

Mythology, Greek - Drama

Greece Drama

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This biography of a first-century C.E. holy man has become one of the most widely discussed literary works of later antiquity. With an engaging style, Philostratus portrays a charismatic teacher and religious reformer from Tyana in Cappadocia (modern central Turkey) who travels across the known world, from the Atlantic to the Ganges. His miracles, which include extraordinary cures and mysterious disappearances, together with his apparent triumph over death, caused pagans to make Apollonius a rival to Jesus of Nazareth.  In a new two-volume Loeb Classical Library edition of Philostratus's third-century work, Christopher Jones provides a freshly edited Greek text and a stylish translation with full explanatory notes. Apollonius of Tyana is by far the longest biography that survives from antiquity. Jones in his Introduction asks how far it is history and how far fiction, and discusses its survival from Late Antiquity to modern times.