DIO CHRYSOSTOM

krĭsˈəstəm, krĭsŏsˈ–, d. after a.d. 112, Greek Sophist and orator [Chrysostom=golden-mouthed], b. Prusa (modern Bursa) in Bithynia. He lived at Rome under Emperor Domitian, who subsequently banished him. He traveled widely, finally returning to Rome in the favor of emperors Nerva and Trajan. He leaned toward the philosophy of the Cynics and Stoics. With Plutarch he shared in the revival of Greek literature in the 1st cent. Extant are 80 orations on literary, political, and philosophical subjects.

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Dio Chrysostom: Politics, Letters, and Philosophy
Book by Simon Swain; Oxford University Press, 2000
Subjects: Dio--Chrysostom, Political Science--Greece--History, Speeches, Addresses, Etc., Greek--History And Criticism
...The Career and Conversion of Dio Chrysostom, JHS 98: 79-ioo. - (1983a...the Fourth Kingship Oration of Dio Chrysostom, ClAnt 2: Z f r-78. -(rg83b), Dio Chrysostom: Exile, Tarsus, Nero and Domitian...
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Philosophia Togata: Essays on Philosophy and Roman Society
Book by Miriam Griffin, Jonathan Barnes; Clarendon Press, 1997
Subjects: Philosophy--Rome--Congresses, Rome--Intellectual Life--Congresses
...44 1949 20-9. And 144 . vi Dio Chrysostom 164 Arnim H. von, Leben und...Aspects of the Social Thought of Dio Chrysostom and of the Stoics", Proceedings...The career and conversion of Dio Chrysostom", Journal of Helknic Studies...
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Jesus' Defeat of Death: Persuading Mark's Early Readers
Book by Peter G. Bolt; Cambridge University Press, 2003
Subjects: Bible--N.T--Mark--Criticism, Narrative, Bible--N.T--Mark--Reader-Response Criticism, Death--Biblical Teaching, Exorcism--Biblical Teaching, Healing In The Bible, Jesus Christ--Miracles
...Harvard University Press, 1925, repr. 1968). Dio Chrysostom J. W. Cohoon, Dio Chrysostom II (LCL; Cambridge, Mass. London: Harvard...1977). J.W. Cohoon H.L. Crosby, Dio Chrysostom III Discourses XXI-XXXVI (LCL; London Cambridge...
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Nero: The End of a Dynasty
Book by Miriam T. Griffin; Routledge, 2000
Subjects: Emperors--Rome--Biography, Nero--Emperor Of Rome--37-68, Rome--History--Nero, 54-68
...obscure 13 AP 9. 178 on which see p.149; Dio Chrysostom 31. 148-9; Pliny NH 34. 36 notes 3...collections see above, p.256 n10. Athens: Dio Chrysostom 31. 148; Delphi: Dio Chrysostom 31. 148; Pausanias 10. 7, 1, cf. 10...
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Return to Reason: A Critique of Enlightenment Evidentialism, and a Defense of Reason and Belief in God
Book by Bruce W. Winter; Eerdmans, 1990
Subjects: Calvin, Jean--1509-1564, Enlightenment, Faith And Reason, God--Proof, Knowledge, Theory Of (Religion), Natural Theology, Plantinga, Alvin, Reid, Thomas--1710-1796, Theodicy
...in Dio, in S. Swain, ed., Dio Chrysostom: Politics, Letters, and Philosophy...fidelity and promiscuousness. 89. Dio Chrysostom, Or. 7.141-42; D. A. Russell, Dio Chrysostom, Orations VII, XII, XXXVI...
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journal articles on: Dio Chrysostom  - 43 results

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Homer in the French Renaissance*
Journal article by Philip Ford; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2006
Subjects: Homer (Greek poet)--Criticism and interpretation, Homer (Greek poet)--Works, Renaissance--Analysis
...and Plutarch, and an essay by Dio Chrysostom, there is barely a word of explanation...little in the shorter essay by Dio Chrysostom (twenty-four brief annotations...works of Homer starts fol. BIr; Dio Chrysostom begins fol. EVIIv; the text...
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Jesus and the Cynics Revisited
Journal article by David Seeley; Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 116, 1997
Subjects: Bible, Exegesis & hermeneutics, Jesus Christ
...uncompromising."18 Similarly, Dio quotes Diogenes as saying he could...yea, and amid brigands . . . " (Dio Chrysostom 6.60).19 Eddy also says that...Laertius 6.31). In a similar vein, Dio writes that the Cynic "has no companions...
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Kingdom and Cross: Christian Moral Community and the Problem of Suffering
Journal article by Lisa Sowle Cahill; Interpretation, Vol. 50, 1996
Subjects: Bible, Christianity, Culture, Ethics, History, Jesus Christ, Morality
...develops Greek parallels here too. Dio Chrysostom criticized honor-seeking as disruptive...friendship and good will. While Dio presents an ethic for the elite...Romans 12 and in the Orations of Dio Chrysostom," in Engberg-Pedersen, Paul...
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Using the Master's Tools to Shore Up Another's House: a Postcolonial Analysis of 4 Maccabees
Journal article by David A. Desilva; Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 126, 2007
Subjects: Exegesis & hermeneutics, Ideology, Jews, Minority & ethnic groups, Poetry
...Gorg. 491D).30 Centuries later, Dio Chrysostom would write that "if a person is...personal rivalry against Onias; see Dio, In cont. Or. 48, denouncing the...Eth. nic, 1167b3-9; see also Dio, In cont. Or. 48). Aristotle...
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Exercise for Mind and Body: Giulio Mancini, Collecting, and the Beholding of Landscape Painting in the Seventeenth Century
Journal article by Frances Gage; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 61, 2008
Subjects: Art, Renaissance, Exercise--History, Exercise--Methods, Mancini, Giulio--Works, Painting (Art)--Health aspects, Painting (Art)--Psychological aspects, Painting--Health aspects, Painting--Psychological aspects, Physicians--Works, Renaissance art, Walking--Health aspects
...on the authority of the first-century philosopher Dio Chrysostom (ca. 40-after 112 CE), who had praised the works...viewer would immerse himself and, in the words of Dio Chrysostom, "forget all care." But a close reading of the...
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'An Army of Lovers:' the Sacred Band of Thebes
Magazine article by Louis Crompton; History Today, Vol. 44, November 1994
Subjects: Gay military personnel--History, Greece--History, Homosexuality--History
...fascinated by their new fighting methods. He later revolutionised military tactics by adapting them to his own purposes. Dio Chrysostom even links him intimately to the Sacred Band by making him the beloved of Pelopidas. Perhaps he was, or perhaps...


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encyclopedia articles on: Dio Chrysostom  - 3 results

 
 
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Dio Chrysostom
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DIO CHRYSOSTOM dio kris st m, krisos , d. after a.d. 112, Greek Sophist and orator Chrysostom=golden-mouthed, b. Prusa (modern Bursa) in Bithynia. He lived...
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Dio Cassius
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DIO CASSIUS (Cassius Dio Cocceianus)dio kash s, c.155 235?, Roman historian and administrator, b. Nicaea in Bithynia. He was a grandson of Dio Chrysostom. His rise in civil and military office was steady; he became...
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Greek Literature, Ancient
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the greatest writers of this period were the historians Polybius , Josephus , and Dio Cassius ; the biographer Plutarch ; the philosophers Philo and Dio Chrysostom ; and the novelist Lucian . One great Roman work produced under Greek influence was...


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