Discourses 12-30 [Greek, Ancient (To 1453)]

by Dio Chrysostom

The man with the golden mouth.

Dio Cocceianus Chrysostomus (AD ca. 40-ca. 120), of Prusa in Bithynia, Asia Minor, inherited with his brothers large properties and debts from his generous father Pasicrates. He became a skilled rhetorician hostile to philosophers. But in the course of his travels he went to Rome in Vespasian's reign (69-79) and was converted to Stoicism. Strongly critical of the emperor Domitian (81-96) he was about...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Greek, Ancient (To 1453)
• ISBN: 0674993748
• ISBN13: 9780674993747
• Release Date: January 1939
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.5" x 6.7"