{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0638.tlg003.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0638.tlg003.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0638.tlg003.local001","title":"Βίοι Σοφιστῶν","titleGreek":"Βίοι Σοφιστῶν","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":"1871","volume":"2","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/operaphilostrati02philuoft/page/n57/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Philostratus The Athenian. Βίοι Σοφιστῶν. ed. Carl Ludwig Kayser. Flavii Philostrati Opera, Lipsiae, Teubner, 1871. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0638.tlg003.local001","excerpt":"τοὺς φιλοσοφήσαντας ἐν δόξῃ τοῦ σοφιστεῦσαι καὶ τοὺς οὕτω κυρίως προσρηθέντας σοφιστὰς ἐς δύο βιβλία ἀνέγραψά σοι, γιγνώσκων μέν, ὅτι καὶ γένος ἐστί σοι πρὸς τὴν τέχνην ἐς Ἡρώδην τὸν σοφιστὴν ἀναφέροντι, μεμνημένος δὲ καὶ τῶν κατὰ τὴν Ἀντιόχειαν σπουδασθέντων ποτὲ ἡμῖν ὑπὲρ σοφιστῶν ἐν τῷ τοῦ Δαφναίου ἱερῷ. πατέρας δὲ οὐ προσέγραψα, μὰ Δία, οὐ πᾶσιν, ἀλλὰ τοῖς ἀπʼ εὐδοκίμων· οἶδα γὰρ δὴ καὶ Κριτίαν τὸν σοφιστὴν οὐκ ἐκ πατέρων, ἀλλὰ Ὁμήρου δὴ μόνου σὺν τῷ πατρὶ ἐπιμνησθέντα, ἐπειδὴ θαῦμα δηλώσειν ἔμελλε πατέρα Ὁμήρῳ ποταμὸν εἶναι. καὶ ἄλλως οὐκ εὐτυχὲς τῷ βουλομένῳ πολλὰ εἰδέναι πατέρα μὲν τοῦ δεῖνος ἐξεπίστασθαι καὶ μητέρα, τὰς δὲ περὶ αὐτὸν ἀρετάς τε καὶ κακίας οὐ γιγνώσκειν, μηδʼ ὅ τι κατώρθωσέ τε οὗτος καὶ ἐσφάλη ἢ τύχῃ ἢ γνώμῃ. τὸ δὲ φρόντισμα τοῦτο, ἄριστε ἀνθυπάτων, καὶ τὰ ἄχθη σοι κουφιεῖ τῆς γνώμης, ὥσπερ ὁ κρατὴρ τῆς Ἑλένης τοῖς Αἰγυπτίοις φαρμάκοις. ἔρρωσο Μουσηγέτα.","divisions":[{"label":"τῷ λαμπροτάτῳ ὑπάτῳ Ἀντωνίῳ Γορδιανῷ Φλάυιος Φιλόστρατος","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0638.tlg003.local001/#tlg0638-tlg003-local001-praef"},{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0638.tlg003.local001/#tlg0638-tlg003-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0638.tlg003.local001/#tlg0638-tlg003-local001-2"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0638.tlg003.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0638.tlg003.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0638/tlg003/local001.json.gz"}}