WI Apollonius of Tyana formed a Religion?

Apollonius of Tyana was a wondering philosopher, and a contemporary of Christ. He was said, like Christ, to have preformed several miracles such as healing the sick, and that upon his death he ascended to Heaven. So what if this went further an, like Christ, Apollonius of Tyana managed to be the founder and/or basis of a religion?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appolonius_of_Tyanna
 
Apollonius of Tyana was a wondering philosopher, and a contemporary of Christ. He was said, like Christ, to have preformed several miracles such as healing the sick, and that upon his death he ascended to Heaven. So what if this went further an, like Christ, Apollonius of Tyana managed to be the founder and/or basis of a religion?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appolonius_of_Tyanna

Basically, he founded one (or, to be precise, he gave a new course to the traditional greco-roman one).
Only he wasn't very successful on the long run.
Pagan elites calling for a spiritualist reform to revive the traditional greco-roman cult kept referring to him for the next three hundred years.
Funnily enough, the one definitely spoiling definitely any possibilty to be successful was Julian (the Apostate), which adered to a much oler-fashoned view of the cults and (quite dumbly) tried to re-instate them in the older slaughter-that-hundred-bulls form instead on the one proposed by Apollonyus.
That gained him the nickname of "the butcher" and buried under a ton of bricks any possibility for that
 

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Basically, he founded one (or, to be precise, he gave a new course to the traditional greco-roman one).
Only he wasn't very successful on the long run.
Pagan elites calling for a spiritualist reform to revive the traditional greco-roman cult kept referring to him for the next three hundred years.
Funnily enough, the one definitely spoiling definitely any possibilty to be successful was Julian (the Apostate), which adered to a much oler-fashoned view of the cults and (quite dumbly) tried to re-instate them in the older slaughter-that-hundred-bulls form instead on the one proposed by Apollonyus.
That gained him the nickname of "the butcher" and buried under a ton of bricks any possibility for that

I've heard of Julian referred to as the Philosopher, never as the Butcher. He was probably one of the best Roman emperors and would be regarded as such had Christianity not demonized him.
 
I don't think that the real Apollonius of Tyana ever had any intention of founding a religion.
And in general, the whole ideea of "alternate Jesuses" is just a modern fad, with little connection to the realities of the era.
 
I don't think that the real Apollonius of Tyana ever had any intention of founding a religion.
And in general, the whole ideea of "alternate Jesuses" is just a modern fad, with little connection to the realities of the era.

Jesus from what I know had little intention of founding a new religion as well.

You should explain it.
 
Jesus from what I know had little intention of founding a new religion as well.

You should explain it.
Technically, he wanted to "upgrade" an existing religion (Judaism). But he was definitely in the religious leader business, according to the most contemporary sources.
About Appolonius, we have no such information. In fact, what I know about him seems to indicate that he had little use for organized religion.
 
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