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349–420 · ancient Greek sophist and historian
Also known as: Eunapios von Sardes, Eunap, Eunapios, Eunapius von Sardes, Евнапий, إونابيوس
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- Philostratus50–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
His Lives of the Sophists is the direct model for collective biographies of rhetoricians and philosophers. (AI reason)
Zosimus400–418ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHis New History draws heavily on Eunapius's history and shares its pagan, anti-Christian perspective on the late empire. (AI reason)
Libanius314–393ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHis orations and letters portray the same fourth-century world of pagan sophists and Julian's circle. (AI reason)
Julian331–363ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHis writings voice the Neoplatonic, Hellenic religious revival that Eunapius celebrates. (AI reason)
Ammianus Marcellinus330–395ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHe wrote a contemporary narrative history of the fourth-century empire with sympathy for Julian. (AI reason)
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Porphyry233–301ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHis Life of Plotinus is a hagiographic Neoplatonist biography of the kind Eunapius continues. (AI reason)
- Marinos ho Neapolites440–486ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
His Life of Proclus is a reverential biography of a pagan philosopher and holy man. (AI reason)
Priscus410–471ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHe was a fragmentary classicizing Greek historian of the fifth century transmitted alongside Eunapius. (AI reason)
Iamblichus245–325ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHis theurgic Neoplatonism and Life of Pythagoras underpin the wonder-working philosophers Eunapius describes. (AI reason)
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- The lives of the sophists
- Eunapii Sardiani Vitae sophistarum et fragmenta historiarum
- Dexippi, Eunapii, Petri Patricii, Prisci, Malchi, Menandri, Historiarum quae supersunt
- Vitae sophistarum, J. Giangrande recensuit (1956)
- The lyves, of philosophers and oratours: vvritten in Greeke, by Eunapius, of the cittie of Sardeis in Lydia. Brought into light, translated into Latine, and dedicated to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, our moste gracious princesse and soueraigne, Queene Elizabeth. By the great learned man, Hadrianus Iunius Hornanus. 1568. And now set foorth in English, at his request: and dedicated to the right Honourable, the Lord Chauncellour of England. 1579 (1579)