| Apollonius of Tyana, Volume II: Books 5-8 Contributor(s): Philostratus (Author), Jones, Christopher P. (Editor), Jones, Christopher P. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0674996143 ISBN-13: 9780674996144 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $29.70 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2005 Annotation: survives from antiquity. Jones in his Introduction asks how far it is history and how far fiction, and discusses its survival from Late Antiquity to modern times. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2004060863 |
| Series: Loeb Classical Library |
| Physical Information: 1.03" H x 4.5" W x 6.68" (0.73 lbs) 448 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This biography of a first-century CE holy man has become one of the most widely discussed literary works of later antiquity. With an engaging style, Philostratus portrays a charismatic teacher and religious reformer from Tyana in Cappadocia (modern central Turkey) who travels across the known world, from the Atlantic to the Ganges. His miracles, which include extraordinary cures and mysterious disappearances, together with his apparent triumph over death, caused pagans to make Apollonius a rival to Jesus of Nazareth. In a new three-volume Loeb Classical Library edition of Philostratus's third-century work, Christopher Jones provides a freshly edited Greek text and a stylish translation with full explanatory notes. Apollonius of Tyana is by far the longest biography that survives from antiquity. Jones in his Introduction asks how far it is history and how far fiction, and discusses its survival from Late Antiquity to modern times. |
Contributor Bio(s): Jones, Christopher P.: - Christopher P. Jones is George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics and of History, Emeritus, at Harvard University. |