Dio Chrysostom: Politics, Letters, and PhilosophySimon Swain 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. |
Contents
Reception and Interpretation | 13 |
Dio Rome and the Civic Life of Asia Minor | 53 |
City and Country in Dio | 93 |
Public Speech and Community in the Euboicus | 108 |
Marriage Gender and the Family in Dio | 125 |
Some Uses of Storytelling in Dio | 143 |
Dios Use of Mythology | 161 |
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Alexandrian ancient Antisthenes Arnim Asia Minor assembly Athens autarkeia Bithynia Blomqvist 1989 Borystheniticus boule Brancacci century Charidemus civic classical concord contemporary context contrast criticism culture Cynic Desideri dialogue Dio's Dio's speeches Diogenes Dionian discourse discussion Domitian echoes elite emperor Euboean Euboicus example exile fact father Greece Greek Greek cities Greek world Halfmann Hellenic Hellenistic Heracles Homer homonoia human huntsman imperial important intellectual interest Jones Kingship Oration literary live Lucian Moles moral Musonius Musonius Rufus myth narrative Olympicus Orphic passage period Phaedo philosophical Philostratus Plato Pliny Plutarch polis political praise Prusa reference rhetoric role Roman Empire Rome Rostovtzeff Russell Salmeri Second Sophistic Senate social Socrates Stoic story Swain Symposium Synesius tale Tarsus themes Timarchus tion tradition Trajan Trapp Trojan Oration Varenus Rufus Vespasian virtue words Xenophon Zeus δὲ καὶ μὲν περὶ τὸ τὸν τοὺς τῶν
References to this book
Philosophy in the Roman Empire: Ethics, Politics and Society Michael B. Trapp No preview available - 2007 |