Apollonius of Tyana Quotes


O thou Sun, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintance of good men, but never hear anything of bad ones, nor they of me.


Citations

Philostratus. The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, The Epistles of Apollonius and the Treatise of Eusebius. Translated by F. C. Conybeare, vol. 1, William Heinemann, 1912, p. 89.

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Apollonius of Tyana
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  • Nationality: Greek
  • Profession: Orator, Philosopher

Apollonius of Tyana (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Τυανεύς; c. 3 BC – c. 97 AD), sometimes also called Apollonios of Tyana, was a Greek Neopythagorean philosopher from the town of Tyana in the Roman province of Cappadocia in Anatolia. He is the subject of Life of Apollonius of Tyana, written by Philostratus over a century after his death.