Philosopher
Dio Chrysostom
Overview
Dio Chrysostom (; Ancient Greek: Δίων Χρυσόστομος Dion Chrysostomos), Dio of Prusa or Cocceianus Dio (c. 40 – c. 115 AD), was a Greek orator, writer, philosopher and historian of the Roman Empire in the 1st century AD. Eighty of his Discourses (or Orations; Λόγοι) are extant, as well as a few letters, a mock essay Encomium on Hair, and a few other fragments. His sobriquet Chrysostom comes from the Greek chrysostomos, which literally means "golden-mouthed".
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Philosophers who discussed Dio Chrysostom
Ideas Dio Chrysostom discusses
- Turkey
- Political freedom
- Greece
- Phaedo
- Philosophy
- Italy
- Ancient Greek
- Prostitution
- Middle Platonism
- Cynicism (philosophy)
- Stoicism
- Nature
- Plato
- Politics
- Diogenes
- Myth
- Rhetoric
- Rome
- Roman Empire
- Slavery
- Vespasian
- Thrace
- Sophist
- Photios I of Constantinople
Place in the tradition
Part of Cynicism (philosophy).