Apollonius of Tyana (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος; Arabic: بلينس; Sanskrit: अपालुन्यः c. 15 – c. 100 AD) was a first-century Greek philosopher and religious...
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Life of Apollonius of Tyana (Greek: Τὰ ἐς τὸν Τυανέα Ἀπολλώνιον), also known by its Latin title Vita Apollonii, is a text in eight books written in Ancient...
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Damis (redirect from Damis of Nineveh)
from Apollonius' biographer Philostratus who wrote his Life of Apollonius of Tyana between 217 and 238. Some scholars[who?] believe the notebooks of Damis...
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Lamia (category Children of Poseidon)
sexual appetite and fed on their flesh afterward. An account of Apollonius of Tyana's defeat of a lamia-seductress inspired the poem "Lamia" by John Keats...
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Empusa (section Life of Apollonius)
Ecclesiazusae) and Philostratus's Life of Apollonius of Tyana. The Empusa was defined in the Sudas and by Crates of Mallus as a "demonic phantom" with...
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Gondophares (category House of Suren)
accounts of the life of Apollonius of Tyana. Puri says that the dates given by Philostratus in his Life of Apollonius of Tyana for Apollonius' visit to...
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Geryon (redirect from Cattle of Geryon)
C3rd AD) Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 5. 5 Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 6. 10 Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 1. 505 ff...
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Titus (category People of the First Jewish–Roman War)
of Titus 11 Suetonius, The Lives of Twelve Caesars, Life of Domitian 2 Philostratus, The Life of Apollonius of Tyana 6.32 Archived 3 March 2016 at the...
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Midas (redirect from Touch of Midas)
Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana, vi.27: "Midas himself had some of the blood of satyrs in his veins, as was clear from the shape of his ears; and...
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Lernaean Hydra (redirect from Beast of lerna)
Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 5. 5 (trans. Conyreare) (Greek sophistry C3rd AD) Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 6. 10 Quintus Smyrnaeus...
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Philostratus (redirect from Philostratus of Athens)
authored at least five works: Life of Apollonius of Tyana (Τὰ ἐς τὸν Τυανέα Ἀπολλώνιον; Latin: Vita Apollonii), Lives of the Sophists (Ancient Greek: Βίοι...
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Enceladus (Giant) (category Deeds of Athena)
written by Lucilius Junior), 71–73 (pp. 8–9); Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 5.16 (pp. 498–501). For Typhon, see Pindar, Pythian 1.15–29,...
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Daphne (category Children of Peneus)
wreath with one of its branches. Philostratus in his Life of Apollonius of Tyana says the Assyrians, who worshipped Apollo Daphnaeus ("Apollo of the Laurel")...
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commentators. A mormolyce is one of several names given to the female phasma (phantom) in Philostratus's Life of Apollonius of Tyana. Mormo is glossed as equivalent...
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200 Philostratus the Elder, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, § 2.12 Pande, G. C.; Pande, Govind Chandra (1990). Foundations of Indian Culture. Motilal Banarsidass...
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Giants (Greek mythology) (redirect from Battle of the Gods and Giants)
1 "the legendary battle of the gods and the giants" pp. 314–315; Pausanias, 8.32.5; Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 5.16 (pp. 498–501), On Heroes...
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Trade. London: Routledge. "Apollonius of Tyana - Livius". livius.org. Retrieved 2017-01-27. "The Life of Apollonius of Tyana Index". sacred-texts.com....
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Ancient Greece–Ancient India relations (category Foreign relations of ancient India)
the Elder, Natural History, 6.23.5 Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2.904-906 Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 2.9 Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 36.196 Nonnus...
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Suetonius, "The Life of Vespasian", 1. Tacitus, Historiae, i. 77, ii. 36, 51. Cassius Dio, lxv. 17. Philostratus, The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, vii. 3. Suetonius...
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Euphrates Tunnel (category Ancient history of transport)
tunnel's construction in the Life of Apollonius of Tyana: "And [Babylon] it is cut asunder by the river Euphrates, into halves of similar shape; and there...
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Fortunate Isles (redirect from Isles of the Blest)
ideal life for ancient Greek aristocracy. Flavius Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana (v.2) says, "And they also say that the Islands of the Blessed...
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Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, VIII, 4, online at Project Gutenberg Gellius. Attic Nights, 4.11.14 Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 8.7.iv, online...
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Geras (category Children of Nyx)
Life of Apollonius of Tyana 5.4 "The Internet Classics Archive | The Odyssey by Homer". classics.mit.edu. Retrieved 2019-07-04. For an example of this...
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The Burial of Abderos Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 5. 5 (trans. Conyreare) (Greek sophistry C3rd AD) Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 6. 245...
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command of Alexander. Philostratus (215). Life of Apollonius of Tyana. The extremity of Libya, which bears the name Abinna, furnishes a haunt of lions,...
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Orpheus (redirect from Myth of Orpheus)
Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, [1] Godwin, William (1876). "Lives of the Necromancers". p. 46. Marcele Detienne, The Writing of Orpheus: Greek...
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Titus Flavius Clemens (consul) (category Year of birth unknown)
Vita Caesarum (Lives of the Caesars, or The Twelve Caesars). Lucius Flavius Philostratus, The Life of Apollonius of Tyana. Eusebius of Caesarea, Historia...
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Satyr (category Companions of Dionysus)
Life of Apollonius of Tyana of how the ghost of an Aethiopian satyr was deeply enamored with the women from the local village and had killed two of them...
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Dragon (redirect from History of dragons)
defeat of "the Accuser" (ho Kantegor). In 217 AD, Flavius Philostratus discussed dragons (δράκων, drákōn) in India in The Life of Apollonius of Tyana (II...
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Hecatoncheires (category Children of Gaia)
Delos) 141–146; Mineur. p. 153 on line 142 f. Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 4.6. Boffa and Leone, p. 385, citing P.Oxy. X 1241 col. IV. Boffa...
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