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

ISBN-13: 9781138013285 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 336 str.

Graham Anderson

Opis

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."

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Graham Anderson