Editing Philostratus (section)

==Name and life==
[[File:Julia_Domna_(Julia_Pia),_inv._2210,_Roman_-_Braccio_Nuovo,_Museo_Chiaramonti_-_Vatican_Museums_-_DSC00897.jpg|thumb|Bust of [[Julia Domna]], Philostratus' patron in the early third century AD.]]
Some ambiguity surrounds his name. The [[Nomen gentilicium|nomen]] ''Flavius'' is given in ''The Lives of the Sophists'' and [[Tzetzes]]. [[Eunapius]] and [[Synesius]] call him a Lemnian; [[Photios I of Constantinople|Photius]] a [[Tyre, Lebanon|Tyrian]]; his letters refer to him as an Athenian. His [[praenomen]] was probably ''Lucius'', although this is not entirely confirmed.<ref name=":0" />

It is probable that he was born in [[Lemnos]], studied and taught at [[Athens]], and then settled in Rome (where he would naturally be called ''Atheniensis'') as a member of the learned circle with which empress [[Julia Domna]] surrounded herself.