Table of Contents

1. Introductory:
1: Simon Swain: Reception and Interpretation
2. Politics:
2: Giovanni Salmeri: Dio, Rome, and the Civic Life of Asia Minor
3: Paolo Desideri: City and Country in Dio
4: John Ma: Public Speech and Community in the Euboicus
5: Richard Hawley: Marriage, Gender, and the Family in Dio
3. Letters:
6: Graham Anderson: Some Uses of Storytelling in Dio
7: Suzanne Said: Dio's Use of Mythology
8: John Moles: The Dionian Charidemus
4. Philosophy:
9: Michael Trapp: Plato in Dio
10: Aldo Brancacci: Dio, Socrates, and Cynicism
11: Frederick Brenk: Dio on the Simple and Self-Sufficient Life

About the Author

Simon Swain is Professor of Classics and Head of Department, University of Warwick

Reviews

A few passages of Dio are famous ... He deserves more, and this book should help. The Journal of Classics Teaching Review from other book by this author Swain has plotted a cautious and helpful path through the lexical maze, while never losing sight of the larger view. Times Literary Supplement