Apollonius of Tyana

Engraved portrait of Apollonius of Tyana. The Nazarene, by Raphael. N.M. Starr, Medium.

He is best known through the medium of the writer Philostratus, in whose biography some have seen an attempt to construct a rival to Jesus Christ. Apollonius was a vegetarian, and a disciple of , Books 1-4 (Loeb Classical Library No. 16)

Haq, Syed Nomanul, Names, Natures, and Things: the Alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan and his Kitab al-Ahjar (Book of Stones). 1994, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands.

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