Dio Chrysostom: Politics, Letters, and Philosophy

by Simon Swain (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199243594
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/09/2001
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

University of Warwick

Table of Contents

1. Introductory:1. Reception and Interpretation, Simon Swain2. Politics:2. Dio, Rome, and the Civic Life of Asia Minor, Giovanni Salmeri3. City and Country in Dio, Paolo Desideri4. Public Speech and Community in the Euboicus, John Ma5. Marriage, Gender, and the Family in Dio, Richard Hawley3. Letters:6. Some Uses of Storytelling in Dio, Graham Anderson7. Dio's Use of Mythology, Suzanne Said8. The Dionian Charidemus, John Moles4. Philosophy:9. Plato in Dio, Michael Trapp10. Dio, Socrates, and Cynicism, Aldo Brancacci11. Dio on the Simple and Self-Sufficient Life, Frederick Brenk