Philostratus The Athenian
Philostratus (in ancient Greek / in Latin nicknamed "Philostratus of Athens," He is a biographer and Roman language Greek of the second century.
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His life is very poorly known. He was born in the late second century , around 170, probably on the island of Lemnos. He spent his childhood before being sent to Athens to pursue his studies. He then became " sophist , "that is to say, at the time of speaker recognition. In the early third century , it is presented to the court of Septimius Severus in Rome. It remains attached to the imperial family that follows in the war against the Picts , in what is now Scotland and then under the reign of Caracalla in 212 in Asia Minor , where Philostratus visit the town of Tyana. Perhaps it was then that Julia Domna , wife of Septimius Severus, commissioned a biography of the philosopher Pythagorean Apollonius of Tyana.
He died during the reign of Emperor Philip the Arab.
It is sometimes confused with another Flavius Philostratus, also born in Lemnos, and called Philostratus of Lemnos. That other Greek sophist born about 215 is designated as his son or his nephew or his son or his grandson, son.
Works by Philostratus of Athens
Commonly attributed to Philostratus of Athens:
- the Lives of the Sophists in two books, one on "Sophists themselves (first and second sophistic) and the other on the" philosophers who were regarded as sophists;
- The Life of Apollonius of Tyana in eight books, fictionalized biography of the philosopher;
- On gymnastics (Gymnastikos)
- and sometimes heroic (or )
Images and tables, attributed to Philostratus of Lemnos , are usually published after the other works of "Philostratus."
Bibliography
Editions
- Life of Apollonius of Tyana (217-245) Studies Philostratus of Athens
- (In) G. Anderson, Philostratus: Biography and Belles Lettres in the Third Century AD, Croom Helm, London, 1986.
- (In) Christopher P. Jones, "Philostratus, Apollonius of Tyana," in Loeb Classical Library (vol. 16 and 17), Cambridge (Mass.)-London, 2005.
- Alain Billault, The Universe Philostratus, Latomus, Brussels, 2000;
- Suzanne Said, Monique and Alain Le Trdi Boulluec, History of Greek literature, Presses Universitaires de France, coll. "Quadriga", Paris, 1997 ( ISBN 2-13-053916-5 ) .
- New encyclopedic dictionary of Jules Trousset.
See also
Related articles
External Links
- Works of Philostratus online (text and translation) (on the database remacle.org)
- On gymnastics available online (site of the University of Paris V)
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