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Philostratus · Wilmer C. Wright
[Image: A Greek philosopher] DEDICATED BY FLAVIUS PHILOSTRATUS TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS ANTONIUS GORDIANUS, CONSUL I have written for you in two Books an account of certain men who, though they pursued philosophy, ranked as sophists, and also of the sophists properly so called; partly because I know that your own family is connected with that profession, since Herodes the sophist was your ancestor; but I remembered, too, the discussions we once held about the sophists at Antioch, in the temple of Daphnean Apollo. Their fathers’ names I have not added in all cases, God forbid! but only for those who were the sons of illustrious men. For one thing I am aware that the sophist Critias also did not begin with the father’s name as a rule, but only in the case of Homer mentioned his father, because the thing he had to relate was a marvel, namely, that Homer’s father was a river [Meles, near …
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