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This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Serena Perrone and published on 01/11/2018.

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A Philostratus who was the author of a work on Sophocles’¹ plagiarism² is cited in the φιλόλογος ἀκρόασις by Porphyry (ap. Eus. PE. 10, 3, 13) and in a commentary on an unknown tragedy from a papyrus of the Roman era (PSI 1287 = TrGF adesp. fr. 722). Porphy…