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54 AD (search for this): entry philostratus-bio-7
s, and was also his son-in-law and pupil. He, too, practised rhetoric at Athens; and he died and was buried at Lemnos. Works According to Suidas, Philostratus the Lemnian wrote :--*Ei)ko/nas, *Panaqhnai+ko/n, *Trwiko/n, *Para/frasin th=s *(Omh/rou a)spi/dos, *Mele/tas. And some attribute to him the lives of the sophists generally assigned to his grand-uncle. Problems with the *Ei)ko/nes This account is palpably inconsistent with itself, as it makes a man who lived in the time of Nero, A. D. 54-168, the father of another who was alive under Philip, A. D. 244-249. Besides, the connection between the second and the third Philostratus is unintelligible, and, if we are to take every thing as it stands, is contradicted by a passage in the *Ei)ko/nes of the author last-mentioned, where he speaks of the second as *Mhtropa/twr, which Fabricius, following an alteration of Meursius on the text of Suidas, translates avunculus. Those difficulties are rendered insuperable by the fact that the
22 AD (search for this): entry philostratus-bio-7
you had attacked him in his lifetime; for only a man can assail a living tyrant, any one can when dead" (2.32.2). Vossius and others had fallen into the error of supposing that this tyrant was Domitian, but Perizonius pointed out the impossibility of a man who was twenty-four years old in the reign of Caracalla, being placed near the time of an emperor dead upwards of 110 years before. He conjectures (and his idea has since then been universally acquiesced in) that it was Elagabalus, slain A. D. 22, whom Aelian had attacked (V. H. praefat. p. 50). At the close of his work, Philostratus the biographer praises his powers in forensic, popular, and extemporaneous eloquence, in rhetorical exercises, and for his writings, and naming him with Nicagoras and Apsines, he says, ou)k e)me\ dei= gra/fein, kai\ ga\r a)\n kai\ a)pisthqei/hn w(s xarisa/menos, e)peidh\ fili/a moi pro\s au)tou\s h)=n. It has been held that this last cause infers the death of the Lemnian, previously to the finishing of
168 AD (search for this): entry philostratus-bio-7
was also his son-in-law and pupil. He, too, practised rhetoric at Athens; and he died and was buried at Lemnos. Works According to Suidas, Philostratus the Lemnian wrote :--*Ei)ko/nas, *Panaqhnai+ko/n, *Trwiko/n, *Para/frasin th=s *(Omh/rou a)spi/dos, *Mele/tas. And some attribute to him the lives of the sophists generally assigned to his grand-uncle. Problems with the *Ei)ko/nes This account is palpably inconsistent with itself, as it makes a man who lived in the time of Nero, A. D. 54-168, the father of another who was alive under Philip, A. D. 244-249. Besides, the connection between the second and the third Philostratus is unintelligible, and, if we are to take every thing as it stands, is contradicted by a passage in the *Ei)ko/nes of the author last-mentioned, where he speaks of the second as *Mhtropa/twr, which Fabricius, following an alteration of Meursius on the text of Suidas, translates avunculus. Those difficulties are rendered insuperable by the fact that the second
235 AD (search for this): entry philostratus-bio-7
t not only would the dedication in that case have borne the title au)tokra/twr instead of u(/patos, but Gordian, who in A. D. 239 was only in his 14th year, was too young to have had any such conversation as that referred to. (Fast. Rom. p. 255.) It may have been one of the other Gordiani, who were conspicuous for their consulships. (Jul. Capitol. Gordian. 100.4.) As they were slain A. D. 238, the lives must have been written prior to this event. And as Aspasius did not settle in Rome till A. D. 235 (Clinton, F. R. p. 245) the lives of the sophists were probably written about A. D. 237. Before proceeding to particularize those of his works which have come down to us, it may be more convenient to speak of their general object and style. In all of them, except the lives of the sophists, Philostratus seems to have intended to illustrate the peculiar manner in which the teachers of rhetoric were in the habit of treating the various subjects that came before them. They amplified, orname
237 AD (search for this): entry philostratus-bio-7
f u(/patos, but Gordian, who in A. D. 239 was only in his 14th year, was too young to have had any such conversation as that referred to. (Fast. Rom. p. 255.) It may have been one of the other Gordiani, who were conspicuous for their consulships. (Jul. Capitol. Gordian. 100.4.) As they were slain A. D. 238, the lives must have been written prior to this event. And as Aspasius did not settle in Rome till A. D. 235 (Clinton, F. R. p. 245) the lives of the sophists were probably written about A. D. 237. Before proceeding to particularize those of his works which have come down to us, it may be more convenient to speak of their general object and style. In all of them, except the lives of the sophists, Philostratus seems to have intended to illustrate the peculiar manner in which the teachers of rhetoric were in the habit of treating the various subjects that came before them. They amplified, ornamented, and imitated without regard to historical truth, but solely as a species of gymnas
143 AD (search for this): entry philostratus-bio-7
nes (who was born B. C. 389), which seems mainly introductory, and to prove his position that the modern school was not entirely new, but had its origin so far back as the time of Aeschines. He passes immediately thereafter to the time of Nicetas, about A. D. 97, and the first book ends with Secundus, who was one of the instructors of Herodes Atticus, bringing the sophists in ten lives down to the same period as the sophistic philosophers. The second book begins with Herodes Atticus, about A. D. 143, and continues with the lives of his contemporaries and of their disciples, till the reign of Philip, about A. D. 247, as has been already stated. It consists of thirty-three lives, and ends with Aspasius. The principal value of this work is the opinion which it enables us to form of the merits of the parties treated of, as the taste of Philostratus, making allowance for his prepossessions as a rhetorician, is pure, and is confirmed by the remains we have of some of the productions to whic
238 AD (search for this): entry philostratus-bio-7
III. who was consul A. D. 239 and 241. (Bibl. Graec. vol. v. p. 552.) But to this Clinton justly objects, that not only would the dedication in that case have borne the title au)tokra/twr instead of u(/patos, but Gordian, who in A. D. 239 was only in his 14th year, was too young to have had any such conversation as that referred to. (Fast. Rom. p. 255.) It may have been one of the other Gordiani, who were conspicuous for their consulships. (Jul. Capitol. Gordian. 100.4.) As they were slain A. D. 238, the lives must have been written prior to this event. And as Aspasius did not settle in Rome till A. D. 235 (Clinton, F. R. p. 245) the lives of the sophists were probably written about A. D. 237. Before proceeding to particularize those of his works which have come down to us, it may be more convenient to speak of their general object and style. In all of them, except the lives of the sophists, Philostratus seems to have intended to illustrate the peculiar manner in which the teachers
239 AD (search for this): entry philostratus-bio-7
3.4.) Besides, he dedicates them to a consul named Antonius Gordianus, a descendant of Herodes Atticus, with whom he had conversed at Antiocl concerning the sophists. This Gordianus, Fabricius supposes to have been Gordianus III. who was consul A. D. 239 and 241. (Bibl. Graec. vol. v. p. 552.) But to this Clinton justly objects, that not only would the dedication in that case have borne the title au)tokra/twr instead of u(/patos, but Gordian, who in A. D. 239 was only in his 14th year, was too A. D. 239 was only in his 14th year, was too young to have had any such conversation as that referred to. (Fast. Rom. p. 255.) It may have been one of the other Gordiani, who were conspicuous for their consulships. (Jul. Capitol. Gordian. 100.4.) As they were slain A. D. 238, the lives must have been written prior to this event. And as Aspasius did not settle in Rome till A. D. 235 (Clinton, F. R. p. 245) the lives of the sophists were probably written about A. D. 237. Before proceeding to particularize those of his works which have com
366 BC (search for this): entry philostratus-bio-7
atus has written the lives of the most distinguished sophists, without minuteness and gracefully (e)c e)pidromh=s meta\ xa/ritos). Olearius, following the suggestion of Perizonius, and attending to the distinction made by Philostratus between the oldest and the more recent schools of rhetoric, with great propriety divides the Lives into three parts, of which the first is the shortest, and contains mere notices, in most cases, of the sophistic philosophers, beginning with Eudoxus of Cnidus, B. C. 366, and ending with Dion Chrysostom and Favorinus, a contemporary of Herodes Atticus, on whom he dwells a little more fully--eight lives in all. He then begins with the sophists proper of the old school, commencing with Gorgias (born about B. C. 480), and ending with Isocrates (born B. C. 438), who (eight in all) may be said to belong to the school of Gorgias. He begins the newer school of sophists with Aeschines (who was born B. C. 389), which seems mainly introductory, and to prove his posi
438 BC (search for this): entry philostratus-bio-7
ic, with great propriety divides the Lives into three parts, of which the first is the shortest, and contains mere notices, in most cases, of the sophistic philosophers, beginning with Eudoxus of Cnidus, B. C. 366, and ending with Dion Chrysostom and Favorinus, a contemporary of Herodes Atticus, on whom he dwells a little more fully--eight lives in all. He then begins with the sophists proper of the old school, commencing with Gorgias (born about B. C. 480), and ending with Isocrates (born B. C. 438), who (eight in all) may be said to belong to the school of Gorgias. He begins the newer school of sophists with Aeschines (who was born B. C. 389), which seems mainly introductory, and to prove his position that the modern school was not entirely new, but had its origin so far back as the time of Aeschines. He passes immediately thereafter to the time of Nicetas, about A. D. 97, and the first book ends with Secundus, who was one of the instructors of Herodes Atticus, bringing the sophists
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