Flavius Philostratus: On Heroes. Translated by JENNIFER K. BERENSON MACLEAN and ELLEN BRAD-SHAW AITKIN. Writings from the Greco-Roman World, vol. 3. Atlanta: SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE, 2003. Pp. 1xxxv + 187. $24.95 (paper). The Heroikos, Philostratus' fictional dialogue about what really happened...

PA4272 2004-016000 90-04-13094-2 Philostratus's Heroikos; religion and cultural identity in the third century C.E.. Title main entry. Ed. by Ellen Bradshaw Aitken and Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean. (Writings from the Greco-Roman world; v.6) Brill Academic Publishers, [c]2004 ...

In the following essay, Bowersock discusses Philostratus's notion of the “sophistic,” characterizing his writing as a “reliable evocation of a grand baroque age.”

In the following essay, Jones examines the social and historical background of the events described in the Heroikos, first summarizing the work and then focusing on the date of composition, geographical setting, and the views expressed in it regarding heroes.

In the following essay, Jones argues that a passage from Philostratus's Heroikos can help identify an emperor mentioned in a treatise by Pausanias; the critic claims that the man described is in fact Lucius Verus.