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Philostratus, Life of Apollonius 5.1-5 - Livius

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Philostratus' Life of Apollonius: third-century biography of a charismatic teacher and miracle worker from the first century CE, who is often likened to Jesus of Nazareth. In the Life of Apollonius, Athenian author Philostratus (a sophist who lived from c.170 to c.247) tells the story of Apollonius of Tyana, a charismatic teacher and miracle worker from the first century CE. (A summary of this work can be found here.) It is an apologetic vie romancée, in which Philostratus tries to prove that Apollonius was a man with divine powers, but not a magician. The translation was made by F.C. Conybeare and was published in 1912 in the Loeb Classical Library. [5.1] Now in regard to the Pillars which they say Heracles fixed in the ground as limits of the earth, I shall omit mere fables, and confine myself to recording what is worthy of our hearing and of our narrating. The extremes of Europe and Libya border on a strait sixty stadia wide, through which the ocean is admitted into the inner seas.

Philostratus' Life of Apollonius : third-century biography of a charismatic teacher and miracle worker from the first century CE, who is often likened to Jesus of Nazareth. Introduction 1.1-5 1.6-10 1.11-15 1.16-20 1.21-25 1.26-30 1.31-35 1.36-40 2.1-5 2.6-10 2.11-15 2.16-20 2.21-25 2.26-30 2.31-35 2.36-40 2.41-43 3.1-5 3.6-10 3.11-15 3.16-20 3.21-25 3.26-30 3.31-35 3.36-40 3.41-45 3.46-50 3.51-55 3.56-58 4.1-5 4.6-10 4.11-15 4.16-20 4.21-25 4.26-30 4.31-35 4.36-40 4.41-45 4.46-47 5.1-5 5.6-10 5.11-15 5.16-20 5.21-25 5.26-30 5.31-35 5.36-40 5.41-43 6.1-5 6.6-10 6.11-15 6.16-20 6.21-25 6.26-30

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