Philostratus

by Bowie, Ewen Elsner, John

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Title Statements

Full title :Philostratus / edited by Ewen Bowie and Jaś Elsner.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2009.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge (GB)
Language:eng
Publication Date:2009.

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Contributions en anglais, textes d'accompagnement en grec ancien.

The Physical Object

Description:1 vol. (XII-401 p.) : : ill., carte, plan ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780521827201, 0521827205
oclc:ocn495243396
LC Classification:PA4272.Z5
Dewey Decimal:182/.2

A protean corpus / Jas Elsner -- Philostratus : the life of a sophist / Ewen Bowie -- Culture and nature in Philostratus / Simon Swain -- Narrator and audience in Philostratus's Lives of the sophists / Thomas Schmitz -- Philostratus and the symbolic roles of the sophist and philosopher / Harry Sidebottom -- The deaths of the sophists : philostratean biography and elite funerary customs -- Joseph Rife -- Virtual visions : phantasia and the perception of the divine in the life of Apollonius of Tyana / Verity Platt -- The ancestor of my wisdom : Pythagoras and pythagoreanism in the life of Apollonius / Jaap-Jan Flinterman -- The Odyssey of Apollonius : an intertextual paradigm / Gert-Jan van Dijk -- Performing heroics : language, landscape and identity in Philostratus's Heroikos / Tim Whitmarsh -- Black sails to Achilles : the Thessalian pilgrimage in Philostratus' Heroicus / Ian Rutherford -- Training athletes and interpreting the past in Philostratus's Gymnasticus / Jason König -- Constructing identity in the love letters of Philostratus / Simon Goldhill -- Colour in the Imagines of Philostratus / Sandrine Dubel -- Absorption and erudition in Philostratus's Imagines / Zahra Newby -…

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