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The Three Cities of Dio Chrysostom: Conflict and Utopia in the Roman East
106 McCormick Hall 106 McCormick Hall, PrincetonAmong the manifold literary production of celebrity lecturer and philosopher Cocceianus Dio (later nicknamed "Goldenmouth" for his style), a body of speeches stands out: those he gave in his hometown of Prousa (modern Bursa), in the late first and early second centuries CE. These speeches, almost certainly authentic fragments of political oratory delivered before the […]
