Dio Chrysostom: Politics, Letters, and Philosophy

by Simon Swain (editor)

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.

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Hoyden · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wasn't what I expected. That's not normally a good reason to give a middle-of-the-road review of a book (in my opinion)... except in the few selections I read, the scholarship seemed similarly middle-of-the-road. I know we all need these occasional "setting the stage for a new movement in the field" volumes... but going over the 16 kinds of letters found in Oxyrhynchus just so you can determine a "genre" bores me...

... although the references to pirates and lesbians were fantastic. ;)

Maybe I need to finish the book entirely before driving down the hammer. Anticipated point taken.