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9780199255214

Dio Chrysostom Politics, Letters, and Philosophy

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    9780199255214

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-08-29
  • 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

Note on Contributors ix
Dio's Life and Works 1(12)
PART ONE: INTRODUCTORY
Reception and Interpretation
13(40)
Simon Swain
PART TWO: POLITICS
Dio, Rome, and the Civic Life of Asia Minor
53(40)
Giovanni Salmeri
City and Country in Dio
93(15)
Paolo Desideri
Public Speech and Community in the Euboicus
108(17)
John Ma
Marriage, Gender, and the Family in Dio
125(18)
Richard Hawley
PART THREE: LETTERS
Some Uses of Storytelling in Dio
143(18)
Graham Anderson
Dio's Use of Mythology
161(26)
Suzanne Said
The Dionian Charidemus
187(26)
John Moles
PART FOUR: PHILOSOPHY
Plato in Dio
213(27)
Michael Trapp
Dio, Socrates, and Cynicism
240(21)
Aldo Brancacci
Dio on the Simple and Self-Sufficient Life
261(18)
Frederick E. Brenk
Bibliography 279(26)
Index 305

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