Graham Anderson

Philostratus (Routledge Revivals)

Biography and Belles Lettres in the Third Century A.D.

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Produktbeschreibung

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. It produces new evidence which supports Philostratus' credibility, but it also extends the charges of ignorance and bias in his handling of fellow-sophists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781138013285
• ISBN-10: 1138013285
• Artikelnr.: 42786811

Autorenporträt

Graham Anderson

Inhaltsangabe

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