Simon Swain (ed.)

Dio Chrysostom

Politics, Letters, and Philosophy
Herausgeber: Swain, Simon

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780199243594
• ISBN-10: 019924359X
• Artikelnr.: 21575053

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introductory:
1: Simon Swain: Reception and Interpretation
2. Politics:
2: Giovanni Salmeri: Dio, Rome, and the Civic Life of Asia Minor
3: Paolo Desideri: City and Country in Dio
4: John Ma: Public Speech and Community in the Euboicus
5: Richard Hawley: Marriage, Gender, and the Family in Dio
3. Letters:
6: Graham Anderson: Some Uses of Storytelling in Dio
7: Suzanne Said: Dio's Use of Mythology
8: John Moles: The Dionian Charidemus
4. Philosophy:
9: Michael Trapp: Plato in Dio
10: Aldo Brancacci: Dio, Socrates, and Cynicism
11: Frederick Brenk: Dio on the Simple and Self-Sufficient Life