Philostratus, The Life of Apollonius of Tyana: Volume II. Books 6-8. Epistles of Apollonius. Eusebius Treatise (Loeb Classical Library No. 17) Tapa dura - 1912

Harvard University, 1989. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Very good; light edge-wear to boards.

William Heinemann & Harvard University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0674990196 . Minor shelfwear. ; Loeb Classical Library No. 17; Vol. 2; 624 pages .

Loeb Classical Library, 1912-06. Hardcover. Good.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Harvard University Press, 2001 12mo (17 cm), IV, 624 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (bookplate). "Novel and biography are joined in this literary work with a historical core. Philostratus' life of the first century mystic from Tyana was written at the request of the empress Julia Domna. It portrays a man with supernatural powers, a Pythagorean who predicts the future, cures the sick, raises the dead, and himself prevails over death, ascending to heaven and later appearing to disciples to prove his immortality. The account has a rich and varied setting: Apollonius' ministering carries him throughout the eastern Mediterranean world, as far south as Ethiopia, and eastward to India. Philostratus' Life of Apollonius was long viewed by Christians as a dangerous attempt to set up a Christ-like rival. This two-volume edition of the Life of Apollonius of Tyana includes, in the second volume, a collection of Apollonius' letters and a treatise by the Christian bishop and historian… Leer más

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