biography
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Philostratus, Flavius
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pronunciation:
[filostratus]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.170–245)
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| biography:
| Greek sophist. He studied at Athens, and established himself in Rome, where he wrote an idealized life of Apollonius of Tyana, the bright Lives of the Sophists, and the amatory Epistles. The Heroicon and the Imagines, a description of 34 paintings on mythological themes supposedly in a villa near Naples, are now ascribed to his son-in-law, Philostratus the Lemnian; and further Imagines to a third and related Philostratus, probably a grandson. |
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