PHILOSTRATUS THE LEMNIAN

born AD 190 ancient Greek writer, son-in-law of Flavius Philostratus. He was the author of a letter to Aspasius of Ravenna and of the first series of the Imagines in two books, discussing 65 real or imaginary paintings on mythological themes in a portico at Naples. They are an important source for the knowledge of Hellenistic art and roused the enthusiasm of the German poet J.W. von Goethe. Philostratus the Younger, grandson of Philostratus the Lemnian, wrote a second series of Imagines in the 3rd century AD.