Review of a new edition of the Life of Apollonius of Tyana

BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Flavius Philostratus. Vita Apollonii Tyanei.

Gerard Boter, Flavius Philostratus. Vita Apollonii Tyanei. Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana, 2043. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. lxiii, 322. ISBN 9783110218824

Review by
Tomás Fernández, University of Buenos Aires, Conicet. Tomas.Fernandez@conicet.gov.ar

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All in all, Boter’s edition has made significant advances in all major features of critical editions. His collations are more systematic, his stemma more solid, and the conjectures he includes are enough to allow the reader to picture, even in problematic cases, what the genuine reading may be.

For more on the first-century itinerant sage Apollonius of Tyana, especially in relation to Jesus, see here and links.

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