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    Apollonius of Tyana (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος; Arabic: بلينس; Sanskrit: अपालुन्यः c. 15  – c. 100 AD) was a first-century Greek philosopher and religious...
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    knowledge from towns like Ephesus, Tyana, Aegae, and Antioch. The eastward travel of Apollonius is described in Book I. Apollonius receives from the Parthian...
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  • as the Book of the Secret of Creation, Kitâb sirr al-Halîka in Arabic. This text presents itself as a translation of Apollonius of Tyana, under his Arabic...
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    Lamia (category Children of Poseidon)
    sexual appetite and fed on their flesh afterward. An account of Apollonius of Tyana's defeat of a lamia-seductress inspired the poem "Lamia" by John Keats...
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  • Ecclesiazusae) and Philostratus's Life of Apollonius of Tyana. The Empusa has been defined in the Sudas and by Crates of Mallus as a "demonic phantom" with...
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  • Master Jesus (category Masters of the Ancient Wisdom)
    Apollonius of Tyana, since according to Creme, Apollonius lived from AD 16 to c. AD 97. However, one of the possible chronologies of Apollonius of Tyana's life...
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    Gondophares (category House of Suren)
    accounts of the life of Apollonius of Tyana. Puri says that the dates given by Philostratus in his Life of Apollonius of Tyana for Apollonius' visit to...
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    to house relics of the Buddha, while several monastic buildings were built around the stupa. The Greek philosopher Apollonius of Tyana is related to have...
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    Tyana, earlier known as Tuwana during the Iron Age, and Tūwanuwa during the Bronze Age, was an ancient city in the Anatolian region of Cappadocia, in modern...
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  • authored at least five works: Life of Apollonius of Tyana (Τὰ ἐς τὸν Τυανέα Ἀπολλώνιον; Latin: Vita Apollonii), Lives of the Sophists (Ancient Greek: Βίοι...
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  • Damis (redirect from Damis of Nineveh)
    from Apollonius' biographer Philostratus who wrote his Life of Apollonius of Tyana between 217 and 238. Some scholars[who?] believe the notebooks of Damis...
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    Daphne (category Women of Apollo)
    wreath with one of its branches. Philostratus in his Life of Apollonius of Tyana says the Assyrians, who worshipped Apollo Daphnaeus ("Apollo of the Laurel")...
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    Apollonius of Tyana sought to emulate Pythagoras and live by Pythagorean teachings. The later first-century Neopythagorean philosopher Moderatus of Gades...
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    pseudo-Apollonius of Tyana), although it differs slightly from the (probably even earlier) version preserved in pseudo-Apollonius of Tyana's Sirr al-khalīqa...
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  • up Apollonius in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Apollonius (Ancient Greek: Απολλώνιος) is a masculine given name which may refer to: Apollonius of Athens...
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  • Gandhara (category Ancient empires and kingdoms of India)
    reminding them of Athens. De Beauvoir Priaulx, Osmond (1860). "The Indian Travels of Apollonius of Tyana". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain...
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    Geryon (redirect from Cattle of Geryon)
    C3rd AD) Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 5. 5 Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 6. 10 Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 1. 505 ff (trans...
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    Gymnosophists (category History of Jainism)
    Gymnosophists by Apollonius of Tyana. In Greek literature, they are mentioned in association with the Persian magi, the Chaldaeans of the Assyrians or...
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    philosopher Apollonius of Tyana is related by Philostratus in Life of Apollonius of Tyana to have visited India, and specifically the city of Taxila around...
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    Pythagorean doctrines, but the most important members of the school were Apollonius of Tyana and Moderatus of Gades in the 1st century AD. Other important Neopythagoreans...
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    Hermes Trismegistus (category Epithets of Hermes)
    pseudo-Apollonius of Tyana), although it differs slightly from the (probably even earlier) version preserved in pseudo-Apollonius of Tyana's Sirr al-khalīqa...
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    Zoroastrian messiah. Apollonius of Tyana was said to have been assumed into Elysium by Philostratus. Yudhishthira of the Mahabharata and Lakshmana of the Ramayana...
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    Midas (redirect from Touch of Midas)
    Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana, vi.27: "Midas himself had some of the blood of satyrs in his veins, as was clear from the shape of his ears; and...
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    Titus (category People of the First Jewish–Roman War)
    of Titus 11 Suetonius, The Lives of Twelve Caesars, Life of Domitian 2 Philostratus, The Life of Apollonius of Tyana 6.32 Archived 3 March 2016 at the...
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    skeptical and considered it an unreliable exaggerated account of a tiger. Apollonius of Tyana also dismissed the mantichore as a tall tale, according to...
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    Proteus (category Children of Poseidon)
    biographical work Life of Apollonius of Tyana. In the Odyssey (iv.430ff) Menelaus wrestles with "Proteus of Egypt, the immortal old man of the sea who never...
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    of Apollonius of Tyana 5. 5 (trans. Conyreare) (Greek sophistry C3rd AD) Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 6. 10 Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy...
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    story in Philostratus's Life of Apollonius of Tyana, in which Apollonius prevents the execution of a man falsely condemned of banditry. Michael the Archimandrite...
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    Tony Randall (category Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre alumni)
    eponymous seven faces (Dr. Lao, the Abominable Snowman, Merlin, Apollonius of Tyana, The Giant Serpent, Pan, and Medusa), Randall also appeared without...
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    Skiapodes in his Life of Apollonius of Tyana, which was cited by Eusebius in his Treatise Against Hierocles. Apollonius of Tyana believes the Skiapodes...
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