TY - BOOK ID - 17062095 TI - Apollonius of Tyana : Letters of Apollonius, ancient Testimonia, Eusebius's Reply to Hierocles. AU - Philostratus, Flavius AU - Jones, Christopher Prestige PY - 2006 VL - 16, 17 SN - 0674996178 9780674996175 0674996135 9780674996137 0674996143 9780674996144 PB - Cambridge Harvard university press DB - UniCat KW - Philosophers KW - Apollonius, KW - Apolloniĭ Tianskiĭ KW - Apollonio Tianeo KW - Apollonios, KW - Apolloniusz, KW - Apolonio, KW - Balînâs, KW - أبولونيوس KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Philosophy KW - Philosophes KW - Biography KW - Early works to 1800. KW - Biographies KW - Ouvrages avant 1800 KW - Scholars KW - Philosophers - Greece - Biography - Early works to 1800. KW - Mythology, Greek KW - Drama. KW - Greece UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17062095 AB - 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. ER -