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:	9780199255214
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	08/28/2002
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 5.40(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introductory:
1. Reception and Interpretation, Simon Swain
2. Politics:
2. Dio, Rome, and the Civic Life of Asia Minor, Giovanni Salmeri
3. City and Country in Dio, Paolo Desideri
4. Public Speech and Community in the Euboicus, John Ma
5. Marriage, Gender, and the Family in Dio, Richard Hawley
3. Letters:
6. Some Uses of Storytelling in Dio, Graham Anderson
7. Dio's Use of Mythology, Suzanne Said
8. The Dionian Charidemus, John Moles
4. Philosophy:
9. Plato in Dio, Michael Trapp
10. Dio, Socrates, and Cynicism, Aldo Brancacci
11. Dio on the Simple and Self-Sufficient Life, Frederick Brenk