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Greek sophist and historian, was See also:born at See also:Sardis, A.D. 347. In his native See also:city he studied under his relative the sophist See also:Chrysanthius, and while still a youth went to See also:Athens, where he became a favourite See also:pupil of Proaeresius the rhetorician. He possessed a considerable knowledge of See also:medicine. In his later years he seems to have resided at Athens, teaching See also:rhetoric. Initiated into the Eleusinian mysteries, he was admitted into the See also:college of the Eumolpidae and became hierophant. There is See also:evidence that he was still living in the reign of the younger See also:Theodosius (408-450). Eunapius was the author of two See also:works, one entitled Lives of the See also:Sophists (Blot clAoo64wv xai vorkwr&wv), and the other consisting of a continuation of the See also:history of See also:Dexippus (q.v.). The former See also:work is still extant; of the latter only excerpts remain, but the facts are largely incorporated in the work of See also:Zosimus. It embraced the history of events from A.D. 270-404. The Lives of the Sophists, which deals chiefly with the contemporaries of the author, is valuable as the only source for the history of the neo-See also:Platonism of that See also:period.

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style of both works is See also:bad, and they are marked by a spirit of See also:bitter hostility to See also:Christianity. See also:Photius (See also:cod. 77) had before him a " new edition " of the history in which the passages most offensive to the Christians were omitted. Edition of the Lives by J. F. Boissonade (1822), with notes by D. See also:Wyttenbach; history fragments in C. W. See also:Muller, Fragmenta Hist. Graecorum, iv.; V. See also:Cousin, Fragments philosophiques (1865).

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