ABSTRACT
Beginning with Philostratus’ ekphrasis of Dodona, which is the second last description in the Imagines, this final chapter brings together the book’s analyses of interpreters and interpretation through the Corpus Philostrateum as a whole, and places Philostratus’ work against the background of contemporary Greek culture under the Roman Empire. In particular it revisits from the introduction the questions of what drove Philostratus to address the range of topics which appear in the corpus, and whether the steady growth of Christianity was a factor.
