{"product_id":"9780674993747-discourses-1230","title":"Discourses 12–30","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDio Chrysostom (AD ca. 40–ca. 120) was a rhetorician hostile to philosophers, whose \u003ci\u003eDiscourses \u003c\/i\u003ereflect  political or moral concerns. What survives of his works make him  prominent in the revival of Greek literature in the late first and early  second century AD.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe man with the golden mouth.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDio  Cocceianus Chrysostomus (AD ca. 40–ca. 120), of Prusa in Bithynia, Asia  Minor, inherited with his brothers large properties and debts from his  generous father Pasicrates. He became a skilled rhetorician hostile to  philosophers. But in the course of his travels he went to Rome in  Vespasian’s reign (69–79) and was converted to Stoicism. Strongly  critical of the emperor Domitian (81–96) he was about 82 banned by him  from Italy and Bithynia and wandered in poverty, especially in lands  north of the Aegean, as far as the Danube and the primitive Getae. In 97  he spoke publicly to Greeks assembled at Olympia, was welcomed at Rome  by emperor Nerva (96–98), and returned to Prusa. Arriving again at Rome  on an embassy of thanks about 98–99 he became a firm friend of emperor  Trajan. In 102 he traveled to Alexandria and elsewhere. Involved in a  lawsuit about plans to beautify Prusa at his own expense, he stated his  case before the governor of Bithynia, Pliny the Younger, 111–112. The  rest of his life is unknown.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nearly all of Dio’s extant \u003ci\u003eDiscourses \u003c\/i\u003e(or \u003ci\u003eOrations\u003c\/i\u003e)  reflect political concerns (the most important of them dealing with  affairs in Bithynia and affording valuable details about conditions in  Asia Minor) or moral questions (mostly written in later life; they  contain much of his best writing). Some philosophical and historical  works, including one on the Getae, are lost. What survives of his  achievement as a whole makes him prominent in the revival of Greek  literature in the last part of the first century and the first part of  the second.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Loeb Classical Library edition of Dio Chrysostom is in five volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56449706361206,"sku":"9780674993747","price":23.93,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_41275516.jpg?v=1778824873","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780674993747-discourses-1230","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}