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| Other uniform titles: | Eunapius, approximately 345-approximately 420, Lives of the philosophers and sophists.
Wright, Wilmer Cave,
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| ISBN: | 9780674991491
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| Notes: | Includes bibliography, glossary, and indexes.
Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages.
Description based on print version record.
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| Summary: | In Lives of the Sophists Philostratus (second to third century CE) depicts the widespread influence of Sophistic in the second and third centuries CE. Lives of Philosophers and Sophists by Eunapius (born 347 CE) is our only source concerning Neo-Platonism in the latter part of the fourth century CE. Of the distinguished Lemnian family of Philostrati, Flavius Philostratus "the Athenian," ca. 170-205 CE, was a Greek sophist who studied at Athens and later lived in Rome. He was author of the admirable Life of Apollonius of Tyana (Loeb nos. 16 and 17) and of Lives of the Sophists, a treasury of information about notable sophists. Philostratus's sketches of sophists in action yield a fascinating picture of the predominant influence of Sophistic in the educational, social, and political life of the Empire in the second and third centuries. The Greek sophist and historian Eunapius was born at Sardis in 347 CE, but went to Athens to study and lived much of his life there teaching rhetoric and possibly medicine. He was initiated into the mysteries and was hostile to Christians. His Lives of Philosophers and Sophists (mainly contemporary with himself) is our only source for knowledge of Neo-Platonism in the latter part of the fourth century.
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| Other form: | Print version: Philostratus, the Athenian, active 2nd century-3rd century. Lives of the sophists. Eunapius: lives of the philosophers and sophists. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1921 9780674991491
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