Person
Apollonius of Tyana
philosopher
Greek Neopythagorean Apollonius of Tyana (ca.
15?–ca.
100?
CE) is a Greek Neopythagorean philosopher from the town of Tyana in the Roman province of Cappadocia in Asia Minor.
Little is known about him with certainty.
Being a 1st-century orator and philosopher around the time of Christ, he was compared with Jesus of Nazareth by Christians in the 4th century and by various popular writers in modern times.