Philostratus

Weitere Verfasser: Bowie, Ewen.
Elsner, Jas.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Umfang/Format: xii, 401 p. : 9 ill., 4 plans.
Schriftenreihe: Greek culture in the Roman world
Schlagworte:
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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 Konig
  • 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
  • Philostratus and the Narcissus of Caravaggio / Stephen Bann.