Philostratus of Lemnos
Philostratus of Lemnos (
Works
Eikones (Εἰκόνες, Images or Imagines) is ostensibly a description of 64 pictures in a Neapolitan gallery. Goethe, Welcker, Brunn, E. Bertrand and Helbig, among others, have held that the descriptions are of actually existing works of art, while Heyne and Friederichs deny this. In any case they are interesting as showing the way in which ancient artists treated mythological and other subjects, and are written with artistic knowledge and in attractive language. A second series of Imagines was produced by his grandson.
Philostratus the Younger certainly wrote the 2nd series of Eikones and in the foreword, thanked Philostratus the Elder for the 1st series[1] so eventually attributed to him instead of Philostratus of Athens as previously attributed.
The work Heroicus traditionally attributed to Philostratus of Athens, but is now more commonly attributed to this Philostratus.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Kayser, Carl Ludwig (1871). Philostratus the Younger: Imagines (2nd series) – foreword. Lipsiae: B. G. Teubneri.
...τὠμῷ ὁμωνύμῳ τε καὶ μητροπάτορι...
Sources
- Côté, Dominique. "La figure d’Eschine dans les Vies des sophistes de Philostrate", Cahiers des études anciennes 42 (2005), p. 389-420.
- Côté, Dominique. "Les deux sophistiques de Philostrate", Rhetorica 24 (2006), 1-35.
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Philostratus". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 445. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
External links
- Greek Wikisource has original text related to this article: Φιλόστρατος ο πρεσβύτερος
- Online Text: Philostratus III, On Heroes, modern translation by Ellen Bradshaw Aitken and Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean (at Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University)
- Flavii Philostrati opera, C. L. Kayser (edit.), 2 voll., Lipsiae, in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1870–71, vol. 2 pp. 294-389.
- Philostratus: Imagines. Callistratus: Descriptiones, Arthur Fairbanks (edit.), London: William Heinemann LTD, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1931, pp. 1-274.
- Philostratus Maior: Imagines, O. Benndorf - C. Schenkel (ed.), Lipsiae, in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1893.
- Philostratorum et Callistrati opera, Eunapii vitae sophistarum, Himerii sophistae declamationes, A. Westermann, Jo. Fr. Boissoade, Fr. Dübner (ed.), Parisiis, editore Ambrosio Firmin Didot, 1849, pp. 339-392.