This biography of a first-century C.E. holy man has become one
of the most widely discussed literary works of later antiquity.
With an engaging style, Philostratus portrays a charismatic teacher
and religious reformer from Tyana in Cappadocia (modern central
Turkey) who travels across the known world, from the Atlantic to
the Ganges. His miracles, which include extraordinary cures and
mysterious disappearances, together with his apparent triumph over
death, caused pagans to make Apollonius a rival to Jesus of
Nazareth.
In a new two-volume Loeb Classical Library edition of
Philostratus's third-century work, Christopher Jones provides a
freshly edited Greek text and a stylish translation with full
explanatory notes. "Apollonius of Tyana" is by far the longest
biography that survives from antiquity. Jones in his Introduction
asks how far it is history and how far fiction, and discusses its
survival from Late Antiquity to modern times.
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