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1	The Life of Apollonius of Tyana: Books V-VIII more books like this by Philostratus, Christopher P Jones (Editor) add to wishlist This biography of a first-century CE holy man has become one of the most widely discussed literary works of later antiquity. With an engaging style, Philostratus portrays a charismatic teacher and religious reformer from Tyana in Cappadocia (modern central Turkey) who travels across the known world, from the Atlantic to the Ganges. His miracles, ... see all copies from $24.00! new only from $24.00!
2	Apollonius of Tyana more books like this by George Robert Stowe Mead add to wishlist Apollonius of Tyana was a Greek Pythagorean philosopher and teacher. He hailed from the town of Tyana in the Roman province of Cappadocia in Asia Minor. He was roughly a contemporary of Jesus. At the age of 20 Apollonius began a five year silence, after the completion of this term of silence he traveled to Mesopotamia and Iran. After his death his ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $10.79! \| first editions
3	The Path of the Argo: Language, Imagery and Narrative in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius more books like this by R J Clare add to wishlist In this innovative study of Apollonius Rhodius' influential epic poem from the Hellenistic period, the author aims both to offer fresh insights into popular critical issues and consider it from new perspectives. The principal, unifying concern is the poet's measured and complex use of language and the manipulation of meaning generated therewith. ... see all copies from $33.69! new only from $33.69! \| SVS
4	Apollonius of Tyana the Philosopher Reformer of the First Century A.D. more books like this by G R S Mead add to wishlist With the exception of the Christ no more interesting personage appears upon the stage of Western history in those early years. see all copies from $8.95! new only from $16.16! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Philostratus I: Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Books I-IV more books like this by Christopher P Jones (Translator) add to wishlist This biography of a first-century CE holy man has become one of the most widely discussed literary works of later antiquity. With an engaging style, Philostratus portrays a charismatic teacher and religious reformer from Tyana in Cappadocia (modern central Turkey) who travels across the known world, from the Atlantic to the Ganges. His miracles, ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $23.49!
6	Apollonius: Conics Books V to VII. the Arabic Translation of the Lost Greek Original in the Version: Volume I: Introduction, Text, and Translation. Vo more books like this by Apollonius add to wishlist This is the first edition of the original text of the advanced part of the most important work on conic sections written in antiquity and one of the most influential works in mathematics. It is also the first literal English translation of it ever to be published. The purpose of the work is to make available, to those interested in the history of ... see all copies from $329.00!
7	Apollonius of Tyana and the Shroud of Turin more books like this by Rob Solarion add to wishlist The Burial Shroud of "The Jesus Christ" was taken from Jerusalem to Edessa, Assyria, in about 50 CE by the disciple Thaddaeus. It remained in Edessa until 944 CE, when it was taken to Constantinople on the orders of Byzantine Emperor Romanus Lecapenus. Then in 1356 CE the Shroud was moved to France, where the Holy See was headquartered at Avignon ... see all copies from $5.03! new only from $18.18! \| SVS
8	Philostratus Apollonius of Tyana: Letters of Apollonius, Ancient Testimonia, Eusebius's Reply to Hierocles more books like this by Christopher P Jones (Translator) add to wishlist Philostratus's colourful biography of Apollonius of Tyana, recounting the sayings and miracles of a Pythagorean sage, incidentally provoked a long-lasting debate between pagans and Christians. This volume, which completes the new Loeb Classical Library edition of "The Life of Apollonius of Tyana", provides historical context for that much ... see all copies from $24.00! new only from $24.00! \| first editions
9	Miracle and Magic more books like this by Andy Reimer add to wishlist Miracle-workers and magicians are difficult characters for contemporary readers of Greco-Roman narratives to comprehend and to distinguish. Hindered both by our modern definitions of "miracle" and "magic", we need to focus our attention on those ancient texts that deal with such characters and their differentiation. Two such texts, the Acts of the ... see all copies from $44.61! new only from $111.84!
10	The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, I, Books 1-5 more books like this by Flavius Philostratus, F C Conybeare (Translator) add to wishlist THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION. Novel and biography are joined in this literary work with a historical core. Philostratus' life of the first century mystic from Tyana was written at the request of the empress Julia Domna. It portrays a man with supernatural powers, a Pythagorean who predicts the future, cures the sick, raises ... see all copies from $13.24! new only from $99.00!
11	Epic and romance in the Argonautica of Apollonius more books like this by Charles Rowan Beye add to wishlist Apollonius' "Argonautica "is almost universally ignored, yet according to John Gardner in his Foreword, this great epic of third-century Alexandria is astoundingly modern in spirit and applicable to today's problems. "Understanding the work as Beye ex-plains it," Gardner notes, "we can see why it apparently failed with most of the sorrowful, ... see all copies from $57.59! first editions
12	Shakespeare's Pericles and Apollonius of Tyre more books like this by Albert H Smyth add to wishlist A study in comparative literature. The Apollonius Saga is known to nearly every language of Europe. The long line of translations, imitations, romances, ballads and plays ends at the last in the culminating splendor of Shakespeare's Pericles Prince of Tyre. The Story of Apollonius; The Origin of the Story; German Versions, Dutch Ballad; Modern ... see all copies from $12.53! new only from $12.53! \| SVS
13	Shakespeare's Pericles and Apollonius of Tyre: A Study in Comparative Literature more books like this by Albert Henry Smyth add to wishlist see all copies from $6.99! new only from $7.00! \| SVS
14	Life of Apollonius more books like this by Philostratus add to wishlist see all copies from $8.88! new only from $48.04!
15 view cover	Apollonius' Argonautica: A Callimachean Epic more books like this by Mary Margolies DeForest add to wishlist The "Argonautica" was said to have been the source of a quarrel between Apollonius, who wrote what looks like an epic poem, and Callimachus, who denounced the writing of epic poetry. Although the quarrel did not take place in the real world, its issue controls the poem. The heroes are determined to take part in a Homeric epic, which the ... see all copies from $91.80! new only from $91.80!
16 view cover	Beginning from Apollo Studies in Appollonius Rhodius and the Argonautic Tradition more books like this by M Harder (Editor), M Cuypers (Editor) add to wishlist "Beginning from Apollo" is the sixth volume of Caeculus and contains the Proceedings of the sixth Fransum Colloquium, held on 8 March 2003. The theme of this colloquium was Apollonius Rhodius, the third century BC poet who wrote the epic "Argonautica" as well as a number of other works, now preserved only in fragments. Apollonius' work was the ... see all copies from $16.50! new only from $16.50!
17	True Messiah: The Story and Wisdom of Apollonius of Tyana more books like this by Phillip A Malpas add to wishlist Malpass overviews the life story and wanderings of the Pythagorean teacher: Apollonius of Tyana. Considered by his contemporaries to be the greatest spiritual influence of the time, Apollonius was even thought to be the Messiah figure himself whose life and wisdom paralleled in many ways that of Jesus Christ. This book provides history, story and ... see all copies from $7.25!
18 view cover	Power, Paideia and Pythagoreanism: Greek Identity, Conceptions of the Relationship Between Philosophers and Monarchs and the Political Ideas in Philos more books like this by Jaap-Jan Flinterman add to wishlist The Athenian sophist Philostratus completed a romanticised biography of Apollonius of Tyana in the second or third decade of the third century A.D. One of the most striking aspects of the presentation of this firstcentury Pythagorean sage and miracleworker in the Vita Apollonii (VA) is his role as 'politically active philosopher'. Not only does ... see all copies from $94.10! new only from $94.10! \| SVS
19 view cover	Apollonius of Perga's Conica: Text, Context, Subtext more books like this by Michael N Fried, Sabetai Unguru add to wishlist This volume takes a look at one of the greatest works of Hellenistic mathematics, Apollonius of Perga's "Conica". It provides an alternative to H.G. Zeuthen's "Die Lehre von den Kegelschnitten im Altertum". The central part of the volume contains a historically sensitive analysis and interpretation of the entire "Conica", both from the standpoint ... see all copies from $219.34! new only from $219.34!
20 view cover	Libro de Apolonio more books like this by Dolores Corbella Diaz add to wishlist El Libro de Apolonio es la suma de una tradicion clasica que tuvo sus continuadores medievales en toda Europa; numerosos topicos, personajes, motivos y rasgos estructurales que configuran el relato confirman la pervivencia de los temas clasicos en el mundo medieval. Todos ellos, adaptados a su contexto y codigos sociales de la epoca, demuestran ... see all copies from $19.50! new only from $22.21!
21 view cover	The Renewal of Epic: Responses to Homer in the Argonautica of Apollonius more books like this by Virginia Knight add to wishlist This work considers various modes of allusion to Homer in the "Argonautica" of Apollonius, dealing not only with similarities in phraseology but also with thematic and structural resemblances. After an introduction, two chapters discuss Apollonian techniques in treating repeated Homeric scenes such as sacrifice, shipwreck, boxing and battle. The ... see all copies from $189.00! new only from $189.00!
22	Libro de Apolinio more books like this by Carmen Monedero add to wishlist see all copies from $23.91!
23 view cover	The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, II, Books 6-8. Epistles of Apollonius. Eusebius: Treatise more books like this by Flavius Philostratus, Eusebius Pamphill, Eusebius add to wishlist THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION. Novel and biography are joined in this literary work with a historical core. Philostratus' life of the first century mystic from Tyana was written at the request of the empress Julia Domna. It portrays a man with supernatural powers, a Pythagorean who predicts the future, cures the sick, raises ... see all copies from $45.00!
24	Mystic Rebels; Apollonius Tyaneus, Jan Van Leyden, Sabbatai Zevi, Cagliostro, more books like this by Harry C. Schnur add to wishlist see all copies from $7.80! first editions
25 view cover	A Commentary on Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica III, 1-471 more books like this by Malcolm Campbell add to wishlist This is the first volume of a five-volume commentary on the third book of Apollonius's "Argonautica", one of the most influential and admired products of the Hellenistic era. The author sets out to deal with all important aspects of the work. In particular, attention is paid to the poet's constant manipulation of the two Homeric epics. Many thorny ... see all copies from $247.74! new only from $247.74!

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