Research Catalog

Title

Lives of the sophists [electronic resource] / Philostratus ; edited and translated by Graeme Miles. Lives of philosophers and sophists / Eunapius ; edited and translated by Han Baltussen.

Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2023.

Details

Additional Authors

• Miles, Graeme, 1976-
• Baltussen, Han
• Philostratus, the Athenian, active 2nd century-3rd century
• Eunapius, approximately 345-approximately 420.

Description

1 online resource (pages cm)

Summary

"Flavius Philostratus, known as "the Elder" or "the Athenian," was born to a distinguished family with close ties to Lesbos in the later second century, and died around the middle of the third. A sophist who studied at Athens and later lived in Rome, Philostratus provides in Lives of the Sophists a treasury of information about notable practitioners. His sketches of sophists in action paint a fascinating picture of their predominant influence in the educational, social, and political life of the Empire in his time. He is almost certainly the author also of the Life of Apollonius of Tyana (LCL 16, 17, 458) and Heroicus and Gymnasticus (LCL 521). Eunapius (ca. 345-415) was born in Sardis but studied and spent much of his life in Athens as a sophist and historian. His Lives of Philosophers and Sophists covers figures of personal or intellectual significance to him in the period from Plotinus (ca. 250) to Chrystanthus (ca. 380), including one remarkable woman, Sosipatra, and then focuses on Iamblichus and his students. The work's underlying rationale combines personal devotion to teachers and colleagues with a broader attempt to rehabilitate Hellenic cultural icons against the rise of Christianity and the influence of its representatives. This edition of Philostratus and Eunapius thoroughly revises the original edition by Wilmer C. Wright (1921) in light of modern scholarship"--

Series Statement

Loeb classical library ; 134

Uniform Title

• Lives of the sophists (Online)
• Loeb classical library ; 134.

Subject

• Philostratus, the Athenian, active 2nd century-3rd century
• Eunapius, approximately 345-approximately 420
• Sophists (Greek philosophy) > Biography > Early works to 1800

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

LCCN

2022039364

OCLC

ssj0001418009

Title

Lives of the sophists [electronic resource] / Philostratus ; edited and translated by Graeme Miles. Lives of philosophers and sophists / Eunapius ; edited and translated by Han Baltussen.

Imprint

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2023.

Series

Loeb classical library ; 134

Loeb classical library ; 134.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

Connect to:

Available onsite at NYPL

Added Author

Miles, Graeme, 1976-

Baltussen, Han.

Container of (expression): Philostratus, the Athenian, active 2nd century-3rd century. Lives of the sophists. English (Miles)

Container of (expression): Philostratus, the Athenian, active 2nd century-3rd century. Lives of the sophists. Greek (Miles)

Container of (expression): Eunapius, approximately 345-approximately 420. Vitae sophistarum. English (Baltussen)

Container of (expression): Eunapius, approximately 345-approximately 420. Vitae sophistarum. Greek (Baltussen)