Philostratus’ works, as Second Sophistic products, convey a sort of ‘Greekness idea’ through the evocation of Greek past and Greek tradition, using procedures that are designed to update that past and that tradition to the present. All this, of course, is made possible by putting into action the resources that Greek paideia makes available. Philostratus’ Eikones – a literary form which comes from one of the progymnasmata, the ekphrasis – displays links between geographical, mythical and historical Greek spaces. In this paper, I try to show how the description of real places is essential to presenting other descriptions of non-real elements, or to introducing mythical stories, or even to evoking dramatic spaces of tragedy, in order to lead, first, the watcher of the painting, then listeners, and finally readers to another kind of space: a mythical one, which is recalled through its associated landscape. Thus, the ‘Greekness idea’ in Eikones consists in a series of Greek spaces which Philostratus seems not to create himself but to re-create through the interpretation of what a painter has previously created.