Apollonius of Tyana (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος; Arabic: بلينس; Sanskrit: अपालुन्यः c. 15 – c. 100 AD) was a first-century Greek philosopher and religious...
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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...
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Damis (redirect from Damis of Nineveh)
from Apollonius' biographer Philostratus who wrote his Life of Apollonius of Tyana between 217 and 238. Some scholars[who?] believe the notebooks of Damis...
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Empusa (section Life of Apollonius)
Ecclesiazusae) and Philostratus's Life of Apollonius of Tyana. The Empusa has been defined in the Sudas and by Crates of Mallus as a "demonic phantom" with...
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Lamia (category Children of Poseidon)
sexual appetite and fed on their flesh afterward. An account of Apollonius of Tyana's defeat of a lamia-seductress inspired the poem "Lamia" by John Keats...
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Gondophares (category House of Suren)
accounts of the life of Apollonius of Tyana. Puri says that the dates given by Philostratus in his Life of Apollonius of Tyana for Apollonius' visit to...
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Geryon (redirect from Cattle of Geryon)
C3rd AD) Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 5. 5 Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 6. 10 Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 1. 505 ff...
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Daphne (category Women of Apollo)
wreath with one of its branches. Philostratus in his Life of Apollonius of Tyana says the Assyrians, who worshipped Apollo Daphnaeus ("Apollo of the Laurel")...
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Lernaean Hydra (redirect from Beast of lerna)
Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 5. 5 (trans. Conyreare) (Greek sophistry C3rd AD) Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 6. 10 Quintus Smyrnaeus...
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Philostratus (redirect from Philostratus of Athens)
authored at least five works: Life of Apollonius of Tyana (Τὰ ἐς τὸν Τυανέα Ἀπολλώνιον; Latin: Vita Apollonii), Lives of the Sophists (Ancient Greek: Βίοι...
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