Frederick Ross; A F LydonBiblio.com
Jones, Christopher PBiblio.com
THE ROMAN WORLD OF DIO CHRYSOSTOM
197831566Harvard University Press. 1978. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover G. P. Goold. Additional plate of inner cover "With the compliments of the author. Sent by Harvard University Press." . Light Foxing to top of textblock. DJ spine sunned. Light edgewear.; Loeb Classical Monographs; 0.39 x 9.06 x 5.91 Inches; 216 pages; The Greek orator Dio Chrysostom is a colorful figure and along with Plutarch one of the major sources of information about Greek civilization during the early Roman Empire. C. P. Jones offers here the first full-length portrait of Dio in English and at the same time a view of life in cities such as Alexandria Tarsus and Rhodes in the first centuries of our era. Skillfully combining literary and historical evidence Mr. Jones describes Dio's birthplace education and early career. He examines the civic speeches for what they reveal about Dio's life and art as well as the life thought and language of Greek cities in this period. From these and other works he reinterprets Dio's attitude toward the emperors and Rome. The account is as lucid and pleasantly written as it is carefully documented. . 0674779150 . Harvard University Press hardcover
