Il filosofo Eustazio nelle Vitae Sophistarum di Eunapio di Sardi

Abstract

A careful reading of the Vitae Sophistarum of Eunapius of Sardis shows that the writer does not make a chronological error regarding the life of the philosopher Eustathius. It was not in fact after his death that his wife Sosipatra and children were taken under the protection of Aedesios. Eustathius had actually retired to spend a period of spiritual purification. He was later sent by the Emperor Constantius II as ambassador to the Persian king.