Orations VII, XII, XXXVI
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Orations VII, XII, XXXVIDescription
Dio of Prusa, known as Dio Chrysostom, was the foremost Greek orator of the classical world in the first century A.D. This new edition, with introduction and commentary, presents three of his speeches, all of which are masterpieces of the genre and are particularly important for the intellectual history of the period. In 'Euboicus' (VII) Dio relates his shipwreck in Euboea and hospitable reception by an isolated group of hunters in the mountains, and uses this as the basis of an eloquent discourse on the simple life and the evils of urban societies. In 'Olympicus' (XII), he addresses the assembled crowd at Olympia on theological themes suggested by the vast statue of Zeus by Phidias, one of the wonders of the ancient world. In 'Borystheniticus' (XXXVI), he recounts a lecture he gives to the people of Olbia, a remote Greek city in Southern Russia, on the subject of the true 'city' and the 'heavenly city' which is the cosmos, whose periodical destruction and rebirth he describes in a colourful Orientalizing myth.Context
Dio Chrysostom (born AD 40, Prusa, Bithynia—died after AD 110) was a Greek rhetorician and philosopher who won fame in Rome and throughout the empire for his writings and speeches.Category
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