{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0638.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0638.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0638.tlg001.local001","title":"Τὰ ἐς τὸν Τυανέα Ἀπολλώνιον","titleGreek":"Τὰ ἐς τὸν Τυανέα Ἀπολλώνιον","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Philostratus the Athenian","authorityName":"Flavius PHILOSTRATUS Soph.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0638-flavius-philostratus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0638-flavius-philostratus/","editors":["Carl Ludwig Kayser"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Flavii Philostrati Opera","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Lipsiae","date":"1870","volume":"1","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Digital Library Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Bridget Almas","Lisa Cerrato","Rashmi Singhal"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/operaphilostrati01philuoft/page/n43/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Philostratus The Athenian. Τὰ ἐς τὸν Τυανέα Ἀπολλώνιον. ed. Carl Ludwig Kayser. Flavii Philostrati Opera, Lipsiae, Teubner, 1870. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0638.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"οἱ τὸν Σάμιον Πυθαγόραν ἐπαινοῦντες τάδε ἐπʼ αὐτῷ φασιν· ὡς Ἴων μὲν οὔπω εἴη, γένοιτο δὲ ἐν Τροίᾳ ποτὲ Εὔφορβος, ἀναβιοίη τε ἀποθανών, ἀποθάνοι δέ, ὡς ᾠδαὶ Ὁμήρου, ἐσθῆτά τε τὴν ἀπὸ θνησειδίων παραιτοῖτο καὶ καθαρεύοι βρώσεως, ὁπόση ἐμψύχων, καὶ θυσίας· μὴ γὰρ αἱμάττειν τοὺς βωμούς, ἀλλὰ ἡ μελιττοῦτα καὶ ὁ λιβανωτὸς καὶ τὸ ἐφυμνῆσαι, φοιτᾶν ταῦτα τοῖς θεοῖς παρὰ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς τούτου, γιγνώσκειν τε, ὡς ἀσπάζοιντο τὰ τοιαῦτα οἱ θεοὶ μᾶλλον ἢ τὰς ἑκατόμβας καὶ τὴν μάχαιραν ἐπὶ τοῦ κανοῦ· ξυνεῖναι γὰρ δὴ τοῖς θεοῖς καὶ μανθάνειν παρʼ αὐτῶν, ὅπη τοῖς ἀνθρώποις χαίρουσι καὶ ὅπη ἄχθονται, περί τε φύσεως ἐκεῖθεν λέγειν· τοὺς μὲν γὰρ ἄλλους τεκμαίρεσθαι τοῦ θείου καὶ δόξας ἀνομοίους ἀλλήλαις περὶ αὐτοῦ δοξάζειν, ἑαυτῷ δὲ τόν τε Ἀπόλλω ἥκειν ὁμολογοῦντα, ὡς αὐτὸς εἴη, ξυνεῖναι δὲ καὶ μὴ ὁμολογοῦντας τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν καὶ τὰς Μούσας καὶ θεοὺς ἑτέρους, ὧν τὰ εἴδη καὶ τὰ ὀνόματα οὔπω τοὺς ἀνθρώπους…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0638.tlg001.local001/#tlg0638-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0638.tlg001.local001/#tlg0638-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0638.tlg001.local001/#tlg0638-tlg001-local001-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0638.tlg001.local001/#tlg0638-tlg001-local001-4"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0638.tlg001.local001/#tlg0638-tlg001-local001-5"},{"label":"Book 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0638.tlg001.local001/#tlg0638-tlg001-local001-6"},{"label":"Book 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0638.tlg001.local001/#tlg0638-tlg001-local001-7"},{"label":"Book 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0638.tlg001.local001/#tlg0638-tlg001-local001-8"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0638.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0638.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0638/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}