{"product_id":"apollonius-of-tyana-volume-ii","title":"Apollonius of Tyana, Volume II","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe life and miracles of a pagan holy man.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis  biography of a first-century AD holy man has become one of the most  widely discussed literary works of later antiquity. In a grandly baroque  style Philostratus portrays a charismatic teacher and religious  reformer from Tyana in Cappadocia (modern central Turkey) who travels  the length of the known world, from the Atlantic to the river Ganges.  His miracles, which include extraordinary cures and mysterious  disappearances, together with his apparent triumph over death, caused  pagans to make Apollonius a rival to Jesus of Nazareth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his  three-volume Loeb edition of this third-century work, Christopher Jones  gives a much improved Greek text and an elegant translation with full  explanatory notes. The \u003ci\u003eLife of Apollonius \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eLife \u003c\/i\u003eis  history and how far fiction. He also discusses the survival and  reception of the work through Late Antiquity and up to modern times, and  the role that it continues to play in controversies about Christianity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54231621075288,"sku":"9780674996144","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780674996144_b422f68d-8087-479c-9f6c-a02f483ae118.jpg?v=1780985748","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/apollonius-of-tyana-volume-ii","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}