Philostratus: The Life of Apollonius of Tyana — a complete modern English translation made in 2026 by Scriptorium Press directly from the Greek, free to read online, free to download (EPUB and plain text); the audiobook is coming soon. 8 books; about 114,084 words. The translation was produced by a Claude model fleet and checked against the original, and says so.
Who made this translation. Translated from the Greek of C. L. Kayser’s Teubner text (1870, Perseus digital edition) by Scriptorium Press, 2026 (83,950 Greek words, 150 batches). Claude Sonnet 5.5 translation fleet; Claude Opus 5.5 referee audit of every batch against the Greek, with every finding ruled on and fixed; Claude Opus 5.5 translation of the opening and closing of every book and of the most-read passages (the birth and Proteus vision, the Brahmans of India, the plague daemon at Ephesus, the empusa at Corinth, the trial before Domitian, the ascension stories). Zero shared 8-word runs with the public-domain English versions (Conybeare 1912, Phillimore 1912, Berwick 1809); every rewording made for that check was reviewed against the Greek by Claude Opus 5.5. The number before each paragraph is its chapter in the edition.
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