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Dio Chrysostom Orations: 7, 12 and 36 (Greek, Paperback, New)
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Dio Chrysostom Orations: 7, 12 and 36 (Greek, Paperback, New)
Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics - Imperial Library
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Dio of Prusa, known as Dio Chrysostom, was the foremost orator in
the classical world in the first century AD. 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' (7), 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' (12), 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' (36), 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. This is the first commentary in
English on these speeches, and while it discusses textual and
linguistic problems necessary for the understanding of Dio's text,
its main thrust is to make Dio more accessible to students through
an appreciation of the literary qualities of his orations and the
context in which they were delivered.
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