Other literary genres flourished in Greek as well. Plutarch and Dion of Prusa (called Chrysostomos, or “golden mouthed” because of his skillful use of language) wrote around 100 CE. Lucian, Galen, Aelius Aristides, Appian, and Arrian wrote in the second century, and Athenaios, Philostratus, and Herodian in the third. These authors, whose output alone exceeds by several orders of magnitude the surviving literature from Homer to the end of the Hellenistic period,
