The life of the sophists

The "Life of the Sophists" is one of the four collections of ancient Greek biographies that have already reached us, still published in Russian only in excerpts: having completed this collection in 237/238. n. e. Flavius ​​Filostostrat was the most famous representative of the literary family of philostrates, who left us a solid and diverse collection of sophistic prose, created for one and a half centuries, in the 2nd-III centuries. n. e., when sophistry was dominant. Family collected works of "all philostrates everything" will be published completely, Tom behind Tom, with a Greek parallel and appropriate apparatus, but it is useful to start acquaintance with the works of philostrators with the "lives of the Sophists" - in order to see the sophists of the Roman time, which belonged to itself and Flavius ​​Filostrath, and other philostrasts, no matter how much they are