The Life of Apollonius of Tyana: Books V-VIII

Résumé du livre

In his new two-volume Loeb Classical Library edition of this third-century work, Christopher Jones gives a much improved Greek text and an elegant translation with full explanatory notes. The Life of Apollonius is formally a biography (by far the longest that survives from antiquity), but in reality a combination of travel narrative, rhetorical showpiece, and much else. In the introduction, Jones addresses the question of how far the Life is history and how far fiction. He also discusses the survival and reception of the work though Late Antiquity and up to modern times, and the role that it continues to play in controversies about Christianity.