Dio Chrysostom Politics, Letters, and

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.

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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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