Philostratus

• Philostratus (c.170-250 CE) was a Roman teacher of Philosophy and Rhetoric.
• He wrote five works of which ‘Lives of the Sophists’ is best the known.

Works

• Lives of the Sophists.
  • It is an informal biography of all the Greek Sophist Philosophers, divided into two sections:
    • The First school of Sophists
    • The Second school of Sophists.