Buch, Englisch, 318 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 584 g
Politics, Letters, and Philosophy
Buch, Englisch, 318 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 584 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-924359-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Dio Chrysostom (c. AD 45-115) is one of the most important writers, thinkers, and politicians from the flourishing world of the Greeks under Rome. His many surviving essays and speeches offer historians, philosophers, and students of literature an impressive range of high-quality writing, original reflection on ethics and social affairs, and intelligent, complex appraisal of the Roman Empire at the height of its power
This volume contains eleven new assessments of the key areas of Dio's life and works by an international team of experts. For the first time studies of Dio's thoughts on civic and imperial life are placed alongside studies both of the sophisticated techniques which he used to expound his political and social message and of the sources that gave him the moral authority to do so. A common theme throughout is the interrelation of writing and power against the background of Dio's firm commitment to Hellenism in the changed circumstances of Roman rule.
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- 1. Introductory:
- 1: Simon Swain: Reception and Interpretation
- 2. Politics:
- 2: Giovanni Salmeri: Dio, Rome, and the Civic Life of Asia Minor
- 3: Paolo Desideri: City and Country in Dio
- 4: John Ma: Public Speech and Community in the Euboicus
- 5: Richard Hawley: Marriage, Gender, and the Family in Dio
- 3. Letters:
- 6: Graham Anderson: Some Uses of Storytelling in Dio
- 7: Suzanne Said: Dio's Use of Mythology
- 8: John Moles: The Dionian Charidemus
- 4. Philosophy:
- 9: Michael Trapp: Plato in Dio
- 10: Aldo Brancacci: Dio, Socrates, and Cynicism
- 11: Frederick Brenk: Dio on the Simple and Self-Sufficient Life
