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Philostratus (170–245)

Greek sophist and rhetorician. After teaching at Athens he went to Rome, where he was requested by the empress Julia Domna to write the Life of Apollonius of Tyana. Other works certainly by Phliostratus are Lives of the Sophists and the first collection of Imagines (descriptions of pictures).



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