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Life of Apollonius of Tyana

Ta es ton Tyanea Apollonion

Commissioned by the empress Julia Domna, this quasi-biographical romance of a wandering first-century sage and wonder-worker blends travel narrative and philosophy in a text later readers debated as either pious history or literary fiction.

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