Philostratus: Lives of the Sophists. Eunapius: Lives of the Philosophers (Loeb Classical Library No. 134) - Hardcover

Philostratus; Eunapius

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674991494 ISBN 13: 9780674991491

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1921

Synopsis

Of the distinguished Lemnian family of Philostrati, Flavius Philostratus 'the Athenian', ca. 170–205 CE, was a Greek sophist 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 of Lives of the Sophists, a treasury of information about notable sophists. Philostratus's sketches of sophists in action yield a fascinating picture of the predominant influence of Sophistic in the educational, social, and political life of the Empire in the second and third centuries.

The Greek sophist and historian Eunapius was born at Sardis in 347 CE, 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. His Lives of Philosophers and Sophists (mainly contemporary with himself) is our only source for knowledge of Neo-Platonism in the latter part of the fourth century.

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Wilmer Cave Wright (1868–1951) was Professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1921
• ISBN 10: 0674991494
• ISBN 13: 9780674991491
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 640