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Eunapius

Title page of the Vitae

sophistarumof Eunapius, in Greek and

Latin, 1596

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Eunapius(Greek:Εὐνάπιος; fl. 4th–5th century AD) was aGreeksophist an dhistorian of the 4th century AD. His principal

surviving work is theLives of Philosophers and Sophists (Greek: Βίοι Φιλοσόφων καὶ Σοφιστῶν; Latin: Vitae sophistarum), a

collection of  the biographies of 23 philosophers and sophists.

Contents  [hide]

1 Early  life

2 Writing

3 Later years

4 References

5 Further reading

6 External links

Early life   [ edit ]

He was born at Sardis, AD 346. In his native city he studied under his relative, the sophist Chrysanthius, and while still a

youth went to Athens, where he became a favourite pupil of Prohaeresius t herhetorician. He possessed considerable

knowledge of medicine.

 Writing   [ edit ]

Eunapius was the author of two works, one entitled Lives of Philosophers and Sophists, and Universal History  consisting of 

a continuation of the histor y of Dexippus. The former work is still extant; of the latter only excerpts remain, but the facts are largely incorporated in the work

of Zosimus. It embraced the history of events from AD 270–404.

The Lives of Philosophers and Sophists, a collection of the biographies of 23 older and contemporaryphilosophers and sophists of the author, is valuable as the

only source for the history of theNeoplatonism of that period. The style of both works is marked by a spirit of bitter hostility to Christianity. Photius had before him a

"new edition" of the history in which the passages most offensive to Christians were omitted.

The Lives of Philosophers and Sophists consists of the biographies of the following philosophers and sophists: Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus,

 Alypius,Sosipatra, Aedesius the Cappadocian, Sopater , Ablabius, Eustathius, Maximus, Priscus, Julian of Cappadocia, Prohaeresius, Epiphanius, Diophantus

(Diophantus the Arab), Sopolis, Himerius, Parnacius, Libanius, Acacius, Nymphidianus, Zeno of Cyprus, Magnus, Oribasius, Ionicus and Crysanthius.

Later years   [ edit ]

In his later years he seems to have lived at  Athens, teaching rhetoric. Initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries, he was admitted into the college of 

theEumolpidae  and became hierophant. There is evidence that he was still living in the reign of the younger Theodosius.

References   [ edit ]

Edition of the Lives by JF Boissonade  (1822), with notes by D Wyttenbach

History fragments in C. W. Müller , Fragmenta Hist. Graecorum, iv.

V. Cousin, Fragments philosophiques (1865), translation: W. C. Wright in the Loeb Classical Library  edition of Philostratus's Lives of the Sophists (1921).

  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "article name needed".Encyclopædia Britannica  (11th ed.).

Cambridge University Press.

Further reading   [ edit ]

Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists. Eunapius,Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists. Translated by Wilmer C. Wright. 1921. Loeb Classical Library. ISBN 978-

0-674-99149-1

External links   [ edit ]

English translation of the Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists   and Introduction by Wilmer Cave Wright (translator)   from theTertullian Project   .

Greek Opera Omnia by Migne Patrologia Graeca with Analytical Indexes

Βίοι Φιλοσόφων καὶ Σοφιστῶν   (original text in Greek)

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