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The Life of Appollonius Of Tyana by Flavius Philostratus is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Life of Appollonius Of Tyana about?
This is the lively account of the many miracles wrought by Apollonius as well as his journeys to Egypt and India and finally his showdown with the Emperor of Rome. It is also a philosophical and religious work that for a long time rivalled Christianity and Jesus Christ. In the Life of Apollonius, the Athenian author Philostratus, a sophist who lived from c.170 to c.247, tells the story of Apollonius of Tyana, a charismatic teacher and miracle worker from the first century CE who belonged to the school of Pythagoras. (A summary can be found here.) It is an PDF apologetic work, in which Philostratus tries to show that Philostratus was a man with divine powers, but not a magician. He also pays attention to Apollonius' behavior as a sophist. Very little is known of Philostratus "the Athenian". 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 th
Who reads The Life of Appollonius Of Tyana?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Flavius Philostratus
- Publisher
- The Reading Room
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, World History, Humanities