Eunapius

Eunapius in Wikipedia

Eunapius (Greek: Εὐνάπιος) was a Greek sophist and historian of the 4th century. Life He was born at Sardis, AD 347. In his native city he studied under his relative, the sophist Chrysanthius, and while still a youth went to Athens, where he became a favourite pupil of Prohaeresius the rhetorician. He possessed considerable knowledge of medicine. ...

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Eunapius in Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Εὐνάπιος). A Greek rhetorician, born at Sardis in A.D. 347. In 405 he wrote biographies of twenty-three older and contemporary philosophers and sophists. In spite of its bad style and its superficiality, this book is our chief authority for the history of the Neo-Platonism of that age. There is an edition by Boissonade (Amst. 1822). We have also s...

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