# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philostratus
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:39:15.153Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philostratus"
name: "Philostratus"
slug: "philostratus"
description: "Philostratus or Lucius Flavius Philostratus, called \"the Athenian\", was a Greek sophist of the Roman imperial period. His father was a minor sophist of the same name. He flourished during the reign of Septimius Severus (193–211) and died during that of Philip the Arab (244–249), probably in Tyre."
tagline: "3rd century Greco-Roman sophist"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "170"
deathDate: "250"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.82
  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.37207466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lucio_Flavio_Filostrato"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B7%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "فيلوستراطوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filostrat"
    title: "Filostrat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Филострат Стари"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Flavius_Philostratus"
    title: "Lucius Flavius Philostratus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil%C3%B2strat_d'Atenes"
    title: "Filòstrat d'Atenes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavius_Filostratos"
    title: "Flavius Filostratos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavius_Philostratos"
    title: "Flavius Philostratos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A6%CE%BB%CE%AC%CE%B2%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%A6%CE%B9%CE%BB%CF%8C%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%82"
    title: "Φλάβιος Φιλόστρατος"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philostratus"
    title: "Philostratus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filostrato"
    title: "Filostrato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil%C3%B3strato_de_Atenas"
    title: "Filóstrato de Atenas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "فیلوستراتوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filostratos_Ateenalainen"
    title: "Filostratos Ateenalainen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philostrate_d'Ath%C3%A8nes"
    title: "Philostrate d'Athènes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil%C3%B3strato_de_Atenas"
    title: "Filóstrato de Atenas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A1"
    title: "פילוסטרטוס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filostrat"
    title: "Filostrat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavios_Filostratos"
    title: "Flavios Filostratos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucio_Flavio_Filostrato"
    title: "Lucio Flavio Filostrato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%94%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9%E3%83%88%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ピロストラトス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%95%84%EB%A1%9C%EC%8A%A4%ED%8A%B8%EB%9D%BC%ED%86%A0%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "필로스트라토스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philostratus_Atheniensis"
    title: "Philostratus Atheniensis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mwl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil%C3%B3strato"
    title: "Filóstrato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavius_Philostratus"
    title: "Flavius Philostratus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flawiusz_Filostrat"
    title: "Flawiusz Filostrat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philostratus"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2274948"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump