“…As well as personal identity and legacy, I will touch on aspects of cultural identity, whether literary or historical, that have been a focus of "Second Sophistic" studies. Some of the most important of these are: Bowersock 1969; Bowie 1970;Swain 1996;Gleason 1995;Schmitz 1997;Connolly 2001;Whitmarsh 2001 andKönig 2014. 2. E.g., Tobin 1997, 7: "Philostratus tries to present the more negative events in Herodes' life .…”