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9780199243594

Dio Chrysostom Politics, Letters, and Philosophy

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    9780199243594

  • ISBN10:

    019924359X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-08-09
  • Publisher: 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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