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Life of Apollonius of Tyana Audiobook
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Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/273360 Title: Life of Apollonius of Tyana Author: Flavius Philostratus Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Length: 18 hrs 21 mins Language: English Release date: 2016-08-26 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Biography & Memoir, Memoir Publisher's Summary: Flavius PHILOSTRATUS (170 - 247), translated by F. C. CONYBEARE (1856 - 1924) Apollonius of Tyana (ca. 40-120 AD) was a Greek Pythagorean philosopher and teacher. He hailed from the town of Tyana in the Roman province of Cappadocia in Asia Minor. His date of birth is a matter of conjecture as some say he was roughly a contemporary of Jesus. After Apollonius' death his name remained famous among philosophers and occultists. In a novelistic invention inserted in the Historia Augusta, Aurelian, at the siege of Tyana in 272, was said to have experienced a visionary dream in which Aurelian claimed to have seen Apollonius speak to him, beseeching him to spare the city of