Dio Chrysostom Politics, Letters, and Philosophy
by Swain, SimonFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-08-09
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
Dio Chrysostom is a major representative of the flourishing world of the Greeks under Rome. He offers an impressive range of high-quality writing, social comment, and appraisal of Rome's Empire at its height. This volume presents eleven new assessments by an international team of experts who for the first time study Dio's politics alongside his philosophy and writing.
Table of Contents
| Introductory | |
| Reception and Interpretation | |
| Politics | |
| Dio, Rome, and the Civic Life of Asia Minor | |
| City and Country in Dio | |
| Public Speech and Community in the Euboicus | |
| Marriage, Gender, and the Family in Dio | |
| Letters | |
| Some Uses of Storytelling in Dio | |
| Dio's Use of Mythology | |
| The Dionian Charidemus | |
| Philosophy | |
| Plato in Dio | |
| Dio, Socrates, and Cynicism | |
| Dio on the Simple and Self-Sufficient Life | |
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