Description: Further DetailsTitle: Lives of the Sophists. Lives of Philosophers and SophistsCondition: NewFormat: HardbackISBN-10: 0674997530EAN: 9780674997530ISBN: 9780674997530Publisher: Harvard University PressRelease Date: 06/01/2023Description: Two sophists on the history of sophistry.Flavius Philostratus, known as “the Elder” or “the Athenian,” was born to a distinguished family with close ties to Lesbos in the later second century, and died around the middle of the third. A sophist who studied at Athens and later lived in Rome, Philostratus provides in Lives of the Sophists a treasury of information about notable practitioners. His sketches of sophists in action paint a fascinating picture of their predominant influence in the educational, social, and political life of the Empire in his time. He is almost certainly the author also of the Life of Apollonius of Tyana (LCL 16, 17, 458) and Heroicus and Gymnasticus (LCL 521).Eunapius (ca. 345–415) was born in Sardis but studied and spent much of his life in Athens as a sophist and historian. His Lives of Philosophers and Sophists covers figures of personal or intellectual significance to him in the period from Plotinus (ca. 250) to Chrystanthus (ca. 380), including one remarkable woman, Sosipatra, and then focuses on Iamblichus and his students. The work’s underlying rationale combines personal devotion to teachers and colleagues with a broader attempt to rehabilitate Hellenic cultural icons against the rise of Christianity and the influence of its representatives.This edition of Philostratus and Eunapius thoroughly revises the original edition by Wilmer C. Wright (1921) in light of modern scholarship.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 162mmItem Length: 108mmAuthor: Philostratus, EunapiusContributor: Graeme Miles (Edited and translated by), Han Baltussen (Edited and translated by)Genre: Language & ReferenceTopic: Literary Criticism, Ancient History, HistoryBook Series: Loeb Classical LibraryType: LinguisticsRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Lives of the Sophists. Lives of Philosophers and Sophists
Title: Lives of the Sophists. Lives of Philosophers and Sophists
ISBN-10: 0674997530
EAN: 9780674997530
ISBN: 9780674997530
Release Date: 06/01/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Han Baltussen (Edited and translated by)
Genre: Language & Reference
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 672 Pages
Publication Name: Lives of the Sophists. Lives of Philosophers and Sophists
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Item Height: 1.2 in
Publication Year: 2023
Subject: Ancient / Greece, Rhetoric, Ancient & Classical
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Author: Eunapius, Philostratus
Item Length: 6.4 in
Series: Loeb Classical Library
Item Width: 4.2 in
Format: Hardcover
