CRITICISM

Francis, James A. Apollonius of Tyana: The Rehabilitated Ascetic. In Power, Subversive Virtue: Asceticism and Authority in the Second-Century Pagan World, pp. 83-189. University Park: Pennsylvania University Press, 1995.

Claims that with his biography of Apollonius of Tyana, Philostratus rehabilitates the ascetic Pythagorian philosopher into a model of classical ideals and social order, thereby admitting him into the literature and society of the cultured classes.

Raynor, D. H. “Moeragenes and Philostratus: Two Views of Apollonius of Tyana.” The Classical Quarterly 34, 1 (1984): 222-26.

Considers why Philostratus disapproves of and dismisses the four books by the historian Moeragenes on Apollonius of Tyana despite certain similarities in their accounts.