Philostratorum quae supersunt omnia
Subtitle: Vita Apollonii libris VIII.  Vitae Sophistarum libris II.  Heroica.  Imagines priores atque posteriores et Epistolae.  Accessere Apollonii Tyanensis Epistolae, Eusebii liber adversus Hieroclem, Callistrati descript. statuarum.  Omnia ex mss. codd. recensuit notis perpetuis illustravit versionem totam fere novam fecit Gottfridus Olearius
Contributors: Philostratus, the Lemnian, active 3rd century; Apollonius, of Tyana; Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 260-approximately 340; Callistratus, active 3rd century-4th century; Hierocles, Sossianus, active 293-311; Olearius, Gottfried, 1672-1715
Publisher: Apud Thomam Fritsch
Published: 1709
Place of publication: Lipsiae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 987
Subjects: Painting; Early works to 1800; Painting, Greco-Roman
Description: Olearius’ edition of the Philostrati, which uses unpublished notes by the English literary giant Richard Bentley on the MS of the ‘Heroica’ in New College, Oxford (Preface p. XI; footnotes, pp. 660-753). Works by the c.3rd century AD members of the Philostratus family are (by ‘the Athenian’), an account of the 1st century AD Pythagorean Apollonius of Tyana, of other pagan sophists, of the cults of heroes of the Trojan war, and letters on themes of love ; (possibly by his great nephew and son-in-law, ‘the Lemnian’) a set of descriptions of artistic images; (possibly by his son, ‘the younger’) a further set of artistic descriptions. Also included are letters once attributed to Apollonius of Tyana; descriptions of statues by Callistratus (fl. 3rd or 4th century), who imitated Philostratus; and the treatise of Eusebius of Caesarea (c.AD 260-339) against comparisons, made by the Stoic Hierocles (fl. 2nd century), between Apollonius of Tyana and Christ.
Notes: At head of title: Title in Greek.