Callistratus ( grc-x-koine, Καλλίστρατος), Greek
sophist
A sophist ( el, σοφιστής, sophistes) was a teacher in ancient Greece in the fifth and fourth centuries BC. Sophists specialized in one or more subject areas, such as philosophy, rhetoric, music, athletics, and mathematics. They taught ' ...
and
rhetorician, probably flourished in the 3rd (or possibly 4th) century CE. He wrote (also known by the Latin title , and Greek title ),
descriptions of fourteen works of art in stone or brass by distinguished artists. This little work is usually edited with the ''
Eikones'' of
Philostratus
Philostratus or Lucius Flavius Philostratus (; grc-gre, Φιλόστρατος ; c. 170 – 247/250 AD), called "the Athenian", was a Greek sophist of the Roman imperial period. His father was a minor sophist of the same name. He was born probab ...
(whose form it imitates).
References
Bibliography
* Editions of the Greek text
** Edition by C. Schenkl and E. Reisch (
Teubner
The Bibliotheca Teubneriana, or ''Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana'', also known as Teubner editions of Greek and Latin texts, comprise one of the most thorough modern collection published of ancient (and some medieval) ...
series, 1902)
**
C. G. Heyne, ''Opuscula Academica'', v. pp. 196–221, with commentary on the ''Descriptiones''
** A. Fairbanks,
Loeb Classical Library edition (with Philostratus), with English translation (1931)
**
Balbina Bäbler and Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, ''Ars et verba: die Kunstbeschreibungen des Kallistratos'', Greek text with introduction, annotations, and archeological commentary in German. Munich and Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2006.
* F. Jacobs, ''Animadversiones criticae in Callistrati statuas'' (1797)
* Michel Costantini, Françoise Graziani, Stéphane Rolet, ''Le défi de l'art. Philostrate, Callistrate et l'image sophistique''. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2006.
External links
*''Flavii Philostrati opera'', C. L. Kayser (edit.), 2 voll., Lipsiae, in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1870–71
vol. 2 pp. 421-438
*''Philostratus: Imagines. Callistratus: Descriptiones'', Arthur Fairbanks (edit.), London: William Heinemann LTD, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1931
pp. 375-424
*
Philostrati minoris imagines et Callistrati descriptiones', C. Shenkl - A. Reisch (ed.), Lipsiae, in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1902.
*''Philostratorum et Callistrati opera, Eunapii vitae sophistarum, Himerii sophistae declamationes'', A. Westermann, Jo. Fr. Boissoade, Fr. Dübner (ed.), Parisiis, editore Ambrosio Firmin Didot, 1849
pp. 415-424
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Roman-era Sophists