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Dio Chrysostom · J. W. Cohoon
Dio Chrysostom (“the Golden-Mouthed”, c. AD 40–115) was a Greek orator and popular philosopher of the Second Sophistic, exiled under Domitian and later honoured by Trajan. His eighty surviving Discourses blend Stoic and Cynic ethics with rhetoric — on kingship and tyranny, slavery and freedom, custom and law, beauty, retirement, and the famous Euboean oration on the simple country life. Translation by J. W. Cohoon (Loeb Classical Library, 1932–51). Public domain in the United Kingdom and much of the world; in the United States the Loeb text remains under copyright into the 2030s. Marble bust of the emperor Trajan (AD 53–117), to whom several of Dio’s discourses on kingship are addressed. Statue of Diogenes the Cynic at Sinop, Turkey — the Cynic sage is a recurring figure in Dio’s discourses. THE FIRST DISCOURSE as well as the following three has for its subject Kingship, and from …
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