Philostratus and Eunapius, The lives of the sophists
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Philostratus and Eunapius, The lives of the sophists
（The Loeb classical library, 134）
Harvard University Press, 1989
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The lives of the sophists
Βιοι σοφιστων
Βιοι φιλοσοφων και σοφιστων
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Greek text and English translation on opposite pages
Bibliography: p. xlii-xliii
Includes indexes
Contents of Works
- Lives of the sophists / Philostratus
- Lives of the philosophers and sophists / Eunapius
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Of the distinguished Lemnian family of Philostrati, Flavius Philostratus 'the Athenian', ca. 170 205 CE, 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's 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 347 CE, but went to Athens to study and lived much of his life there teaching rhetoric and possibly medicine. He was initiated into the mysteries and was hostile to Christians. His Lives of Philosophers and Sophists (mainly contemporary with himself) is our only source for knowledge of Neo-Platonism in the latter part of the fourth century.
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