By Dio Chrysostom, H. Lamar Crosby
Dio Cocceianus Chrysostomus, ca. 40–ca. a hundred and twenty CE, of Prusa in Bithynia, Asia Minor, inherited together with his brothers huge houses and accounts from his beneficiant father Pasicrates. He turned a talented rhetorician adversarial to philosophers. yet during his travels he went to Rome in Vespasian's reign (69–79) and was once switched over to Stoicism. Strongly severe of the emperor Domitian (81–96) he used to be approximately eighty two banned via him from Italy and Bithynia and wandered in poverty, particularly in lands north of the Aegean, so far as the Danube and the primitive Getae. In ninety seven he spoke publicly to Greeks assembled at Olympia, used to be welcomed at Rome by way of emperor Nerva (96–98), and back to Prusa. Arriving back at Rome on an embassy of thank you approximately 98–99 he grew to become a company pal of emperor Trajan. In 102 he travelled to Alexandria and in different places. concerned with a lawsuit approximately plans to decorate Prusa at his personal cost, he said his case sooner than the governor of Bithynia, Pliny the more youthful, 111–112. the remainder of his existence is unknown. the vast majority of Dio's extant Discourses (or Orations) replicate political issues (the most crucial of them facing affairs in Bithynia and affording precious information about stipulations in Asia Minor) or ethical questions (mostly written in later existence; they comprise a lot of his most sensible writing). a few philosophical and ancient works, together with one at the Getae, are misplaced. What survives of his success as an entire makes him well-known within the revival of Greek literature within the final a part of the 1st century and the 1st a part of the second one. The Loeb Classical Library variation of Dio Chrysostom is in 5 volumes.
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