Flavius Philostratus

Flavius Philostratus Criticism

• Introduction
• Principal Works
• Essays
  • Introduction
  • Introduction
  • The Biographer of the Sophists
  • The Reliability of Philostratus
  • Apollonius of Tyana: Tradition and Reality
  • The Reliability of Philostratus's The Lives of the Sophists
  • The Writer
  • The Main Character
  • Truthful Fiction: New Questions to Old Answers on Philostratus's Life of Apollonius
  • The Emperor and the Giant
  • Phantasia: Plato and Aristotle, Cicero and Other Romans, Dio Chrsysostom, and Philostratus
  • Philostratus' Heroikos and Its Setting in Reality
• Further Reading