Dio Chrysostom's Kingship Orations (Or. 1-4): An Advanced Greek Reader

by Fredrick J. Long

Dio Chrysostom or "golden mouth" (ca. 40-115 CE) was many things-rhetorician, orator, philosopher, historian, moralist as well as enemy and friend of Roman Emperors. He was a prime representative of the "Second Sophistic" movement. His command of the Greek language was Atticizing; his eighty extant discourses are a treasure trove of Greco-Roman cultural mores, lifestyle, religion, and ideology. Preeminent among these discourses are the first four...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1942697570
• ISBN13: 9781942697572
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Glossahouse
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.0" x 10.0"