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Philostratus
No full textThe variety of topics in the surviving works of Philostratus makes generalizations about the corpus as a whole difficult. Two biographical works take contrary approaches. The Lives of the Sophists (in which he coined the term “Second Sophistic”) constructs a partial history of Greek rhetorical culture, while the Life of Apollonius of Tyana transforms the portrait of a philosopher into a condensation of Hellenic tradition. In the Heroicus the foundational text of Homeric epic is reimagined through hero cult and Homeric correction, and in the Imagines the mythic past is reconstituted in ekphrasis of artworks. The defining trait of these works is a profound and creative engagement with the Hellenic past, in which readers are shown interpretive approaches to the traditions of Greek art, literature, and religion, and allowed the opportunity to hone their own hermeneutic skills
Suspense in Philostratus' Apollonius
No full textThis paper aims to show the ways in which suspense works in Philostratus' Apollonius. The author tries to keep his narrative unsurprising by making use of the ‘basic narrative pattern', a template which guarantees Apollonius' victory over any rival character he meets during his worldwide travels. We repeatedly find the protagonist gaining an upper hand over other socially distinguished figures and, through that process, come to be able to keep ourselves calm in the face of whatever happens to the Tyanean sage. The established pattern also allows the author to arrange his episodes in any order he wants because whatever he tells us in a given episode, his goal is always the same --the winner is Apollonius. So basically we have no choice but to acknowledge that Apollonius' conversations, which cover a large part of the work, are predictable and that the whole narrative is quite loosely structured. We, however, have the two important exceptions: the Nero episode and the Domitian episode. In these episodes, we can find Philostratus taking special care of his narrative arrangement to make the episodes exciting to read. More precisely, the author offers us various kinds of suspense, by which he makes the reader uncertain of the future of the protagonist, who is confronted with Nero's and Domitian's threatening antipathy. Even though we can expect Apollonius' victory over the tyrants relying on the ‘basic narrative pattern', still we cannot easily dismiss the possibility of his subordination to them. From these observations, we can conclude that Philostratus is not always an unthinking cataloguer. At least in the two episodes that feature Apollonius' conflict with the ‘anti-philosophy' emperors, the author can be seen as a sophisticated storyteller who struggles to entertain his readers by carefully arranging narrative components
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Get PDFThe work Eikones (Imagines/Images) by Philostratus consists of 64 fictitious descriptions of images. Mario Baumann analyzes the aesthetic virtuosity which characterizes this text. The speaker who formulates the descriptions proves himself a master in interpreting the images. He creates a unique textual composition of images which continually surprises and challenges the reader due to its diversity. The text of Eikones takes up the tradition of literature and at the same time changes it through the creation of new combinations, always revealing the virtuosity of the author
Miracle-workers and magicians in the Acts of the Apostles and Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana.
Get PDFThe miracle-workers and magicians we meet in the Greco-Roman world and on the pages of Greco-Roman narratives are among the most difficult characters for modem scholars to understand. While Greco-Roman writers presume their readers will share their socio-cultural script and understand how one distinguishes between a legitimate miracle-worker and an illegitimate magician, this script is lost on modem scholars. Hindered first by absolute definitions for miracle and magic from social anthropology and then by relative definitions from the sociology of knowledge, this thesis calls for a re-engagement of the "historic imagination" with respect to these sorts of characters. In particular, this thesis suggests that a detailed investigation into the operation of characters labelled as performers of miracles or magic can reveal the criteria which distinguished the two in the minds of Greco-Roman Mediterraneans as well as revealing the practical outworking of the criteria themselves. Two narratives are chosen for this task-the canonical Acts of the Apostles, representing a Jewish- Christian angle, and Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana, representing a pagan angle. Methodologically the study proceeds by converting these narratives into "narrative worlds" and then subjecting the narrative worlds to a social investigation using models suggested by the work of Mary Douglas and Peter Brown. Under the rubric of "gaining power, " "intersecting power, " and "defending power" the two narrative worlds projected by these texts are compared and contrasted with respect to the criteria being used to distinguish miracle-worker from magician. The conclusion reached is that in both texts legitimacy for a mediator of divine power is found especially in demonstrating power without appearing desirous of personal gains. A miracle-worker is successful in this regard; a magician is one who fails in this regard
The life of Apollonius of Tyana
No full texttranslated from the Greek of Philostratus with notes and illustrations by Edward BerwickHandschriftliches Exlibris: "Ca Meier" Exemplar der ETH-BI
Philostratus in verse
Get PDFThis chapter takes the history of literary history beyond the confines of the classical period, and past the formal parameters of prose. Its focus is Philostratus’ depiction of the Second Sophistic, one of most instrumental and contentious ancient models of epoch-making. The Second Sophistic is conventionally considered a world of prose. I make the case for the central role of poetry in Philostratus’ conception of its literary identity. After some preliminary remarks on the complex construct of the Second Sophistic as a cultural phenomenon, and the undoubtable but controversial role of Philostratus at the centre of it, I offer a close reading of the multiple moments of poetry within the Vitae Sophistarum, which shed new light on Philostratus’ approach to the textuality and temporality of this milieu. The chapter ends by discussing the Heroicus, which contains Philostratus’ most elaborate verse compositions, and sees the voices of ancient poets resurrected into new sophistic poetry. This close encounter with Philostratean verse reveals an active and experimental approach to the poetic tradition which treats canonical verse texts as both bounded and closed, and inherently unfinished, and where the lines between old and new, verse and prose, exegesis and literature are interrogated and undermined
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No full textPHILOSTRATE [FLAVIUS PHILOSTRATUS]. gymnasticusPHILOSTRATE [FLAVIUS PHILOSTRATUS]. heroicusNumérisation effectuée à partir d'un document de substitution
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No full textPHILOSTRATUS. ImaginesNumérisation effectuée à partir d'un document de substitution.Philostrati imagines, cum scholiisColbert. 4904
Grec 1762
No full textPHILOSTRATUS. Vitæ sophistarumNumérisation effectuée à partir d'un document de substitution.Philostrati de vitis sophistarum libri IIJ.-A. de Thou.-Colbert. 3904
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