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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 Greece by Philostratus (c. 170 – c. 245 AD). It tells the story of Apollonius of Tyana (c. 15 – c. 100 AD), a Pythagorean philosopher and teacher.
Dec 25, 2023 · Apollonius of Tyana, an ancient Greek philosopher and miracle worker from the Roman province of Cappadocia who lived in the first century CE, is often associated with Jesus Christ. His amazing story that parallels Jesus has raised controversy among historians and theologians for centuries.
Summary. Apollonius was a Greek mathematician known as 'The Great Geometer'. His works had a very great influence on the development of mathematics and his famous book Conics introduced the terms parabola, ellipse and hyperbola. View two larger pictures.
Apollonius of Perga (born c. 240 bc, Perga, Pamphylia, Anatolia—died c. 190, Alexandria, Egypt) was a mathematician, known by his contemporaries as “the Great Geometer,” whose treatise Conics is one of the greatest scientific works from the ancient world.
The longest and most important source on the life of Apollonius is a vie romancée by the Athenian author Philostratus (c.170-c.245 CE). It describes the sage of Tyana s a superhuman, neo-Pythagorean philosopher who tried to reform cultic practices in modern Greece, Turkey, and Syria.
Philostratus' Life of Apollonius: third-century biography of a charismatic teacher and miracle worker from the first century CE, who is often likened to Jesus of Nazareth. The summaries of the eight books were - with permission - copied from J.J. Flinterman, Power, paideia & pythagoreanism (1995 Amsterdam). Book one.
Apollonius of Tyana in Late Antiquity. Christopher P. Jones, Harvard University. Apollonius of Tyana, the itinerant Pythagorean of the first century, exercised a powerful hold on the imagination of later centuries. The fullest expression of this is to be found in the biography of him that Philostratus of Athens wrote approximately in the 220 ...
