CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Notes on Contributors -- PART ONE LITERARY AND PHILOLOGICAL ASPECTS -- Les choix narratifs de Philostrate dans la Vie d'Apollonios de Tyane (Alain Billault) -- Towards a New Critical Edition of Philostratus' Life of Apollonius: Th e Affi liation of the Manuscripts (Gerard Boter) -- Quotation of Earlier Texts in Τὰ ἐς τὸν Τυανέα Ἀπολλώνιον (Ewen Bowie) -- How to Become a Poet? Homer and Apollonius Visit the Mound of Achilles (Peter Grossardt) -- Author and Narrator: Fiction and Metafi ction in Philostratus' Vita Apollonii (Wannes Gyselinck & Kristoffel Demoen) -- Reforming the Eyes: Interpreters and Interpretation in the Vita Apollonii (Graeme Miles) -- Irony Versus Eulogy. Th e Vita Apollonii as Metabiographical Fiction (Thomas Schirren) -- "Never the Twain Shall Meet"? Plutarch and Philostratus' Life of Apollonius: Some Th emes and Techniques (Luc Van der Stockt) -- PART TWO HISTORICAL, RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS -- Folklore Versus Fakelore: Some Problems in the Life of Apollonius (Graham Anderson) -- Apollonius' Ascension (Jaap-Jan Flinterman) -- Some Letters of Apollonius of Tyana (Christopher Jones) -- The Emesan Connection: Philostratus and Heliodorus (John R. Morgan) -- Pythagoreanism and the Planetary Deities: Th e Philosophical and Literary Master-structure of the Vita Apollonii (Danny Praet) -- The Philostratean Apollonius as a Teacher (Erkki Koskenniemi) -- La Vie d'Apollonius de Tyane et le discours hagiographique (Marc Van Uytfanghe) -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index Locorum.