The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, composed by Flavius Philostratus, offers the reader an enjoyable journey that starts from Tyana in Cappadocia and ends in Gades, Spain, at the famous Pillars of Hercules, with intermediate stops in several cities in Asia Minor and Syria, in Persia, in India, in the main Greek territory, and in Italy. The pages of the work reveal the figure of Apollonius of Tyana, enigmatic and contradictory but at the same time attractive. What is most fascinating is not so much the image of a philosopher or religious leader, but that of a well-traveled literary hero. Equally captivating is the figure of Flavius Philostratus, not so much for his rhetorical or philosophical work, but more for his literary talent, which leaves a giant imprint on the Second Sophistic. Under the guise of fictional biography, one can discover the literary gifts of a grandiose composition that harmoniously combines many other genres that flourished during the Second Sophistic.