Apollonius of Tyana was a contemporary of the first Christians, a Pythagorean wise man credited with travels to India and miracles across the Roman world. Mead surveys the religious brotherhoods of the first century, the links between India and Greece, the shifting opinion of Apollonius over the centuries, and the story of his life as told by Philostratus.
A readable study from a scholar of Gnosticism and the Theosophical movement, for anyone curious about religion in the early Roman Empire. Download the free EPUB.