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It would be useful to have separate pages for Philostratus I-IV (or at any rate II and III), since then each could be given Persondata. This page could be a disambiguation page, but extended to note the lacunae in our knowledge, difficulties of attribution etc. What do ppl think? Dsp1311:51, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I agree, a split is required. I've linked to the page for Philostratus (Philostratus II in the article). Two of the authors I've used on Imperial cult (ancient Rome) cite him simply as Philostratus. A quick google-search suggests to me that Philostratus II in the current article is more usually known as Philostratus, and that this should be the default. Perhaps a disambiguation page would help. Haploidavey (talk) 00:03, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Made the split. I left Philostratus II as the default Philostratus article, and then created pages Philostratus (disambiguation), Philostratus III, and Philostratus IV. Since I know absolutely nothing on the topic, I simply moved the existing text and reworked them into passable stub/start articles.
One thing to note is that the section "Ambiguities in attribution" was lost in the move, since I couldn't figure out where to put it and really didn't want to copy-paste the same thing into each article. I include it here:
There is great difficulty, due to a confused statement of the Suda in disentangling the works and even the personalities of these Philostrati. Reference is there made to Philostratus as the son of Verus, a rhetorician in Nero's time, who wrote tragedies, comedies and treatises. The Suda thus appears to give to Philostratus the Athenian a life of 200 years! We must be content to assume two Lemnian Philostrati, both sophists, living in Rome.
