Lives of the Sophists. Eunapius: Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists

Name: Lives of the Sophists. Eunapius: Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists
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ISBN: 9780674991491

ISBN-10: 0674991494

ISBN-13: 9780674991491

Edition: 1921

Authors: Philostratus, Eunapius, Wilmer C. Wright

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Of the distinguished Lemnian family of Philostrati, Flavius Philostratus 'the Athenian', ca. AD 170-205, 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' 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 AD 347, but went to Athens to study and lived much of his life there teaching rhetoric and…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 1921
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1921
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 640
Size: 4.57" wide x 6.38" long x 1.31" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Philostratus


Introduction


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Eunapius


Introduction


Bibliography


Text Glossary


Index To Philostratus


Index To Eunapius