Philostratus
By: edited by Ewen Bowie and Jaś Elsner.
Contributors: Bowie, Ewen.; Elsner, Jaś.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521827201
Subjects: Philostratus, -- the Athenian, -- 2nd/3rd cent. -- Criticism and interpretation; Sophists (Greek philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A protean corpus / Jaś Elsner; title: Philostratus : the life of a sophist / Ewen Bowie; title: Culture and nature in Philostratus / Simon Swain; title: Narrator and audience in Philostratus's Lives of the sophists / Thomas Schmitz; title: Philostratus and the symbolic roles of the sophist and philosopher / Harry Sidebottom; title: The deaths of the sophists : philostratean biography and elite funerary customs; title: Joseph Rife; title: Virtual visions : phantasia and the perception of the divine in the life of Apollonius of Tyana / Verity Platt; title: The ancestor of my wisdom : Pythagoras and pythagoreanism in the life of Apollonius / Jaap-Jan Flinterman; title: The Odyssey of Apollonius : an intertextual paradigm / Gert-Jan van Dijk; title: Performing heroics : language, landscape and identity in Philostratus's Heroikos / Tim Whitmarsh; title: Black sails to Achilles : the Thessalian pilgrimage in Philostratus' Heroicus / Ian Rutherford; title: Training athletes and interpreting the past in Philostratus's Gymnasticus / Jason König; title: Constructing identity in the love letters of Philostratus / Simon Goldhill; title: Colour in the Imagines of Philostratus / Sandrine Dubel; title: Absorption and erudition in Philostratus's Imagines / Zahra Newby; title: Philostratus and the Narcissus of Caravaggio / Stephen Bann.