Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Apollonius of Tyana: A Study of His Life and Times
Tyana's saint and sage. Nor has the spell fallen upon scholars and critics alone. Thousands of readers of Keats' Lamia have lingered curiously over the foot-note, drawn from The Anatomy of Mel/1h choly, in which Burton quotes Philostratus' account of the young philosopher whom Apollonius miraculously delivered from a lamia, or serpent, in the guise of a beautiful young gentlewoman. There are others who profess to breathe again the atmosphere of the fesculapian College at nae in Pater's Marius the Epicurean. Swedenborgians have found in Apoll'onius a Swedenborg born out of due time: and some so-called Theoso phists, on the strength of the sage's pilgrimage to the wise men of India, have claimed him for their very own. Yet his full legend in English is no longer to be bought for money.
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