Critical Notes on Philostratus' ›Life of Apollonius of Tyana‹

The long felt absence of a trustworthy critical edition of Philostratus’ __Life of Apollonius of Tyana__ has been remedied by the publication of the new Teubner edition of this text, published in 2022. In the preface to the edition the publication of a companion volume was announced. This book fulfils this promise. After an introduction dealing with the transmission of the text and with Philostratus’ Greek there follows an extensive series of critical notes in which a large number of editorial choices are explained. In these notes much attention is paid both to the morphological and syntactic peculiarities of Greek of the Imperial period in general and to the idiosyncratic syntax employed by Philostratus in particular. The notes deal with every aspect of the text, ranging from the use of particles and word order to moods and tenses, and containing ample discussions of conjectures and interpretations of earlier scholars. This book is an indispensable working tool for scholars using the new Teubner edition of the __Life of Apollonius__. It also caters for the needs of students of Greek language and literature in general, and especially of those interested in the Second Sophistic and the works of Flavius Philostratus. PREFACE 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS 7 Introduction 9 Conspectus siglorum 31 Critical Notes 35 Bibliography 291 Index of subjects 300 Index of Greek words 302 Index of passages discussed 303 Index locorum 308 Addenda and corrigenda to the Teubner edition of the Vita Apollonii Tyanei 325