Author

Flavius Philostratus(c. 170–c. 250 CE)Inferred

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

This author survives here only through the 1852 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled after her death by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Flavius Philostratus’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

undatedImagines (Descriptions of ancient pictures)Demonstrated
“From Philostratus descriptions of ancient pictures now lost. "The principal requisite to a fine composition was well known to the ancients...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
Translated engagement type with substantial quoted/translated passage from Philostratus.

When Fuller engaged with Flavius Philostratus

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

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This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.

1852—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“Better is it," said Apollonius, "on entering a small 'shrine to find there a statue of gold and ivory, than in '" a large temple to behold only a coarse figure of terra 'cotta”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.

Inferred Margaret Fuller engages with a pithy observation by Apollonius of Tyana, a sage whose life and teachings were chronicled by Philostratus.