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Dio Chrysostom: Politics, Letters, and Philosophy

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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

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May 27, 2026
Jag kan inte rekommendera denna. Ja, den ger en god översikt över Chrysostoms verk, men är mer ett biografiskt och idehistoriskt verk (vilka är hans influenser) än ett egentligt försök att interagera med Chrysostoms idéer som sådana. Det finns absolut viktiga vinster även med sådana verk, men det är kanske inte den första boken om personen jag hade rekommenderat. För egen del, som romarnörd, hade jag velat se en ännu större djupdykning i idén om stoisk-cynisk praxis såsom Chrysostom levde dem. Det som imponerar med honom som tänkare är trots allt att han levde som han lärde.
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March 17, 2008
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.
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