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, from Samosata in Roman Syria, is one of the more notable omissions from Philostratus' canon of sophists, although his diverse writings include numerous sophistic declamations. Indeed, the interest in 'princes and tyrants' that Philostratus specifically identifies as a characteristic of the 'second' Sophistic 1 is to the fore both in Lucian's pair of Phalaris speeches and in his Tyrannicide. But other typically sophistic concerns are found throughout this author's work: we can observe in particular the numerous occasions when he puts speeches in the mouths of mythological characters, not simply as a rhetorical exercise but as a means to serious satirical ends that connect the authority of literary tradition with the more subversive aims of Cynic philosophy. 2 6 This attention to minute detail of the Homeric text can be seen even in the extravagantly mendacious and iconoclastic True Histories, where we find 'authorial anxiety about altering Homer's story-world' (Ní Mheallaigh 2014: 244); compare Richter's observation that 'all good mimesis, and this is central for Lucian, begins with careful study ' (2017: 341, discussing Against the Ignorant Book Collector 2). 7 Proclus, Chrestomathy, supplemented from Apollod., epit. 3. For the various alternative versions of the Judgement story, see Gantz 1993: 567-71; for Dio's response to it, see Tirrito's contribution in this volume.

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