100 CE) Apollonius of Tyana - (ca. 1 BCE-ca. 100 CE) Lucius Flavius Philostratus - (ca.170-ca.247 CE) The Life of Apollonius - Flavius Philostratus Orphicism Orphism is the teachings of an ancient Greek philosophical cult which exerted great influence on Greek culture, and later on Western mysticism and occultism. It began