Theios Sophistès
Essays on Flavius Philostratus' Vita Apollonii
Biographical note
Kristoffel Demoen, Ph.D. (1993) in Classics, is Professor of Greek Literature at Ghent University. He has published mainly on the interplay between rhetoric, poetry and ideology in Late Antiquity and Byzantium, including Pagan and Biblical Exempla in Gregory Nazianzen (Brepols, 1996).
Danny Praet, Ph.D. in Classics (1997), is Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Early Christianity at Ghent University. He has published mainly on the interplay between religion, philosophy and literature in Late Antiquity. He is currently preparing the edition of the Collected Papers by Franz Cumont.
Danny Praet, Ph.D. in Classics (1997), is Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Early Christianity at Ghent University. He has published mainly on the interplay between religion, philosophy and literature in Late Antiquity. He is currently preparing the edition of the Collected Papers by Franz Cumont.
Readership
Students and scholars interested in the Vita Apollonii, Philostratus, the Second Sophistic, Late Antiquity, Greek literature, the ancient novel, philosophy and religion.
Reviews
This excellent volume of essays serves as a showcase for how much interesting scholarship can come from viewing the Vita Apollonii [...] as a uniquely interesting text worthy of study in its own right, on a level with more canonical works. Specialists will want to read it thoroughly, and a great many others will find unexpectedly rich results from browsing. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, October 2009.
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