La Vita di Apollonio di Tiana e Caracalla: cronologia e contesto storico

The chronology of Philostratus’ Life Apollonius of Tyana is uncertain: it is unknown whether the date of composition that the date of publication of the work. The modern hypotheses put the composition in the age of Septimius Severus and the pubblication under the reign of Alexander Severus. On the basis of significant historical and textual evidences it is now proposed to date to Caracalla’s principate (211-217), the genesis of the Life of Apollonius of Tyana by Philostratus.