ABSTRACT
The sophist’s expertise in traditional language and literature cannot be isolated from a wider view of the heritage of the past. We can catch a glimpse of one of Philostratus’ own sophists enlarging the past of two cities from the following inscription in Argos:
…Publius Anteius Antiochus, having stayed in our city with decorum and generosity, has moreover displayed his virtue and his supreme cultural attainment, not least in his zealous disposition towards his native land, having demonstrated our ancient kinship with the people of Aegeae. He said that Perseus, son of Danae, en route to fight the Gorgons, arrived in Cilicia… and there, bringing the statue of the ancestral goddess…[rest fragmentary].1
