WorkFlavius Philostratus

Life of Apollonius of Tyana

Life of Apollonius of Tyana (c. 220–230 CE) Inferred

Flavius Philostratus (c. 170–c. 250 CE) · c. 220–230 CE

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

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

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Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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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.