The Classical Accounts of India c17.4

c17.4

The biography of Apollonius by Philostratus was first translated into English in 1811, by E. Berwick. Another translation with the original Greek text by F. C. Conybeare was published in 1912 and reprinted in 1917 and 1927.⁶ The book is divided into eight parts of which the second and third deal with his visit to India. A very brief account of it, in English, was given by McCrindle,⁷ while an extensive summary, with a short introductory note, and a short commentary at the end, in English, by Osmond De Beauvoir Priaulx, was published in 1873.⁸ This is reproduced below.