Part I. Introductory: 1. A protean corpus Jä Elsner; 2. Philostratus: the life of a Sophist Ewen Bowie; 3. Culture and nature in Philostratus Simon Swain; Part II. 'Lives of the Sophists': 4. Narrator and audience in Philostratus's 'Lives of the Sophists' Thomas Schmitz; 5. Philostratus and the symbolic roles of the Sophist and philosopher Harry Sidebottom; 6. The deaths of the Sophists: Philostratean biography and elite funerary customs Joseph Rife; Part III. 'Life of Apollonius': 7. Virtual visions: 'phantasia' and the perception of the divine in 'The Life of Apollonius of Tyana' Verity Platt; 8. The ancestor of my wisdom: Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the 'Life of Apollonius' Jaap-Jan Flinterman; 9. The odyssey of Apollonius: an intertextual paradigm Gert-Jan van Dijk; Part IV. 'Heroicus': 10. Performing heroics: language, landscape and identity in Philostratus's 'Heroicus' Tim Whitmarsh; 11. Black sails to Achilles: the Thessalian pilgrimage in Philostratus's 'Heroicus' Ian Rutherford; Part V. 'Gymnasticus': 12. Training athletes and interpreting the past in Philostratus's 'Gymnasticus' Jason König; Part VI. Letters: 13. Constructing identity in the 'Love Letters' of Philostratus Simon Goldhill; Part VII. Imagines: 14. Colour in the 'Imagines' of Philostratus Sandrine Dubel; 15. Absorption and erudition in Philostratus's 'Imagines' Zahra Newby; 16. Philostratus and the Narcissus of Caravaggio Stephen Bann; Appendix: Dialexis.