The Life of Apollonius of Tyana

by Flavius Philostratus, F.C. Conybeare (Translator)

Overview

“Oh, Thou Sun, send me as far around the world as is my pleasure and yours; and may I make the acquaintance of good men but never hear anything of bad ones, nor they of me.” from the Prayer of Apollonius of Tyana, circa 23

Apollonius of Tyana was a Greek Neopythagorean philosopher from the town of Tyana in the Roman province of Cappadocia in Asia Minor. Being a first-century orator and philosopher around the time of Christ, he was compared to Jesus of Nazareth by Christians in the fourth century and by various popular writers in modern times.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011845147
Publisher:	Ancient Wisdom Publications
Publication date:	11/30/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	510
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Of these the most famous is Philostratus "the Athenian". Very little is known of his career. Even his name is doubtful. The Lives of the Sophists gives the praenomen Flavius, which, however, is found elsewhere only in Tzetzes. Eunapius and Synesius call him a Lemnian; Photius a Tyrian; his letters refer to him as an Athenian. It is probable that he was born in Lemnos, studied and taught at Athens, and then settled in Rome (where he would naturally be called Atheniensis) as a member of the learned circle with which empress Julia Domna surrounded herself. He was born probably around 172, and is said by the Suda to have been living in the reign of emperor Philip the Arab (244 - 249). His death possibly occurred in Tyre circa 250 AD.