Dio Chrysostom
Dio Chrysostom (
Life
He was born at
He went to
He was a friend of Nerva,[8] and when Domitian was murdered in 96 AD, Dio used his influence with the army stationed on the frontier in favour of Nerva.[citation needed] Under Emperor Nerva's reign, his exile was ended, and he was able to return home to Prusa. He adopted the surname Cocceianus,[9] reflecting Nerva's nomen, Cocceius. Dio addressed his four Orations on Kingship to Nerva's successor, Trajan, and appears to have known the Emperor personally, claiming "I am perhaps as well acquainted with your character as anyone."[10] He knew Apollonius of Tyana and Euphrates of Tyre. In his later life Dio had considerable status in Prusa, and Pliny the Younger reports that he was involved in a lawsuit about a civic building project around 111.[9] He probably died a few years later.
Writings
Dio Chrysostom was part of the
He wrote many other philosophical and historical works, none of which survives. One of these works,
Editions
- Hans von Arnim, Dionis Prusaensis quem uocant Chrysostomum quae exstant omnia (Berlin, 1893–1896).
- C. Bost-Pouderon, Dion Chrysostome. Trois discours aux villes (Orr. 33–35) (Salerne, 2006).
- C. Bost–Pouderon (ed.), Dion de Pruse dit Dion Chrysostome. Oeuvres (Or. XXXIII–XXXVI (Paris, CUF, 2011).
- Trans. J. W. Cohoon, Dio Chrysostom, I, Discourses 1–11, 1932. Harvard University Press, Loeb Classical Library:
- Trans. J. W. Cohoon, Dio Chrysostom, II, Discourses 12–30, 1939.
- Trans. J. W. Cohoon & H. Lamar Crosby, Dio Chrysostom, III, Discourses 31–36, 1940.
- Trans. H. Lamar Crosby, Dio Chrysostom, IV, Discourses 37–60, 1946.
- Trans. H. Lamar Crosby, Dio Chrysostom, V, Discourses 61–80. Fragments. Letters, 1951.
- H.-G. Nesselrath (ed), Dio von Prusa. Der Philosoph und sein Bild [Discourses 54–55, 70–72], introduction, critical edition, commentary, translation, and essays by E. Amato et al., Tübingen 2009.
Notes
- ^ Dio Chrysostom, Orat. 46.13
- ^ Dio Chrysostom, Orat. 3.13
- ^ Dio Chrysostom, Orat. 13.1
- ^ Dio Chrysostom, Orat. 13.9
- ^ Dio Chrysostom, Orat. 13.11
- ^ Dio Chrysostom, Orat. 12.16
- ^ Dio Chrysostom, Orat. 36; comp. Orat. 13.11 ff.
- ^ Dio Chrysostom, Orat. 45.2
- ^ a b Pliny, Epistles, 10.81
- ^ Dio Chrysostom, Orat. 3.2
- ^ a b Philostratus, Vitae sophistorum i.7
- ^ Synesius, Dion
- ^ Photius, Bibl. Cod. 209
- ^ Dio Chrysostom, Orat. vii.133‑152
- ^ Suda, Dion
Further reading
- Eugenio Amato, Xenophontis imitator fidelissimus. Studi su tradizione e fortuna erudite di Dione Crisostomo tra XVI e XIX secolo (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2011) (Hellenica, 40).
- Eugenio Amato, Traiani Praeceptor. Studi su biografia, cronologia e fortuna di Dione Crisostomo (Besansçon: PUFC, 2014).
- T. Bekker-Nielsen, Urban Life and Local Politics in Roman Bithynia: The Small World of Dion Chrysostomos (Aarhus, 2008).
- Aldo Brancacci, Rhetorike philosophousa. Dione Crisostomo nella cultura antica e bizantina (Napoli: Bibliopolis, 1986) (Elenchos, 11).
- P. Desideri, Dione di Prusa (Messina-Firenze, 1978).
- A. Gangloff, Dion Chrysostome et les mythes. Hellénisme, communication et philosophie politique (Grenoble, 2006).
- B.F. Harris, "Dio of Prusa", in Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt 2.33.5 (Berlin, 1991), 3853–3881.
- C.P. Jones, The Roman World of Dio Chrysostom (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1978).
- Sidebottom, Harry (1996). "Dio of Prusa and the Flavian Dynasty". The Classical Quarterly. 46 (2): 447–456. JSTOR 639801.
- Simon Swain, Hellenism and Empire. Language, Classicism, and Power in the Greek World, AD 50–250 (Oxford, 1996), 187–241.
- Simon Swain. Dio Chrysostom: Politics, Letters, and Philosophy (Oxford, 2000).
- Ventrella, Gianluca (2009). "Dione di Prusa fu realmente esiliato? L'orazione tredicesima tra idealizzazione letteraria e reconstruzione storico-giuridica (con un'appendice di E. Amato)". Emerita. 77 (1): 33–56. .
- Volpe, Paola; Ferrari, Franco, eds. (2001). "L' Euboico di Dione di Prusa: coscienza della crisi ed etica della filantropia". Ricerche su Dione di Prusa. Naples: Luciano Editore. pp. 99–153.
External links
Texts of Dio
- Complete works at LacusCurtius (English translation complete; some items in Greek also)
Secondary material
- Dio Chrysostom at Livius.Org
- Introduction to the Loeb translation at LacusCurtius