Philostratus (Routledge Revivals)

Taylor & Francis

Philostratus (Routledge Revivals)\nPlease note: \nthis item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days).\n\nBiography and Belles Lettres in the Third Century A.D.\nAuthor(s): Graham Anderson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138013278, 978-1138013278\nSynopsis\nThis study of Philostratus , first published in 1986, presents the Greek biographers treatment of both sophists and holy men in the social and intellectual life of the early Roman Empire, which also displays his own distinctive literary personality as a superficial dilettante and an engrossing snob. Through him we gain a glimpse of the rhetorical schools and their rivalries, as well as a bizarre portrayal of the celebrated first-century holy man Apollonius of Tyana, long loathed by his later Christian press as a Pagan Christ. \n\nRarely does a biographers reputation revolve round the charge that h.