Imagines / Philostratus the Elder, [Philastratus] the Younger. Descriptions / Callistratus ; with an English translation by Arthur Fairbanks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Philostratus, the Athenian, active 2nd century-3rd century.

Contributor:

Philostratus, the Lemnian, 3rd century.

Callistratus, active 3rd century-4th century English & Greek.

Fairbanks, Arthur, 1864-1944.

Series:

Loeb classical library ; 256.

Loeb classical library ; 256

Standardized Title:

Imagines. English & Greek

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Painting--Early works to 1800.

Painting.

Painting, Greco-Roman.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 429 pages, 14 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press ; London : W. Heinemann, 1969.

Contents:

Philostratus the Elder. Imagines, Books I-II.

Philostratus the Younger. Imagines.

Callistratus. Descriptions.

Notes:

Greek and English on opposite pages.

The later series of Imagines is called "Posteriores" to distinguish it from the first. In the preface of the present edition, the earlier "Imagines" are ascribed to Philostratus, the Lemnian, son of Nervianus.

Includes index.

Bibliography: page xii.

OCLC:

13483622