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Eunapius(Greek:fl.4th5thcenturyAD)wasaGreeksophistandhistorianofthe4thcenturyAD.Hisprincipal
survivingworkistheLivesofPhilosophersandSophists(Greek:Latin:Vitaesophistarum),a
collectionofthebiographiesof23philosophersandsophists.
Contents[hide]
1 Earlylife
2 Writing
3 Lateryears
4 References
5 Furtherreading
6 Externallinks

Earlylife

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HewasbornatSardis,AD346.Inhisnativecityhestudiedunderhisrelative,thesophistChrysanthius,andwhilestilla
youthwenttoAthens,wherehebecameafavouritepupilofProhaeresiustherhetorician.Hepossessedconsiderable
knowledgeofmedicine.

Writing

TitlepageoftheVitae
sophistarumofEunapius,inGreekand
Latin,1596

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Eunapiuswastheauthoroftwoworks,oneentitledLivesofPhilosophersandSophists,andUniversalHistoryconsistingof
acontinuationofthehistoryofDexippus.Theformerworkisstillextantofthelatteronlyexcerptsremain,butthefactsarelargelyincorporatedinthework
ofZosimus.ItembracedthehistoryofeventsfromAD270404.
TheLivesofPhilosophersandSophists,acollectionofthebiographiesof23olderandcontemporaryphilosophersandsophistsoftheauthor,isvaluableasthe
onlysourceforthehistoryoftheNeoplatonismofthatperiod.ThestyleofbothworksismarkedbyaspiritofbitterhostilitytoChristianity.Photiushadbeforehima
"newedition"ofthehistoryinwhichthepassagesmostoffensivetoChristianswereomitted.
TheLivesofPhilosophersandSophistsconsistsofthebiographiesofthefollowingphilosophersandsophists:Plotinus,Porphyry,Iamblichus,
Alypius,Sosipatra,AedesiustheCappadocian,Sopater,Ablabius,Eustathius,Maximus,Priscus,JulianofCappadocia,Prohaeresius,Epiphanius,Diophantus
(DiophantustheArab),Sopolis,Himerius,Parnacius,Libanius,Acacius,Nymphidianus,ZenoofCyprus,Magnus,Oribasius,IonicusandCrysanthius.

Lateryears

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InhislateryearsheseemstohavelivedatAthens,teachingrhetoric.InitiatedintotheEleusinianMysteries,hewasadmittedintothecollegeof
theEumolpidaeandbecamehierophant.ThereisevidencethathewasstilllivinginthereignoftheyoungerTheodosius.

References

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EditionoftheLivesbyJFBoissonade(1822),withnotesbyDWyttenbach
HistoryfragmentsinC.W.Mller,FragmentaHist.Graecorum,iv.
V.Cousin,Fragmentsphilosophiques(1865),translation:W.C.WrightintheLoebClassicalLibraryeditionofPhilostratus'sLivesoftheSophists(1921).
Thisarticleincorporatestextfromapublicationnowinthepublicdomain:Chisholm,Hugh,ed.(1911)."articlenameneeded".EncyclopdiaBritannica(11thed.).
CambridgeUniversityPress.

Furtherreading

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Philostratus,LivesoftheSophists.Eunapius,LivesofthePhilosophersandSophists.TranslatedbyWilmerC.Wright.1921.LoebClassicalLibrary.ISBN978
0674991491

Externallinks

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EnglishtranslationoftheLivesofthePhilosophersandSophists andIntroductionbyWilmerCaveWright(translator) fromtheTertullianProject .

GreekOperaOmniabyMignePatrologiaGraecawithAnalyticalIndexes

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WorldCatIdentities

VIAF:100215825

LCCN:n84080834

ISNI:0000000108680803

GND:118682660

SUDOC:027521133

BNF:cb11989634n

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