In Philostratus' biography of Apollonius, one finds a series of sections in which this globally traveled philosopher converses with Greeks and non-Greeks about phenomena of art and religion. This volume presents these sections in a new bilingual edition and interprets them in essays that reveal their unique and very appealing mix of literary fact and fiction.

Balbina Bäbler and Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, University of Göttingen, Germany.