Dio Cocceianus (± 40 - ± 120 AD) of Prusa in Bithynia, since the 3rd century nicknamed Chrysostomus (= Golden Mouth, Greek: Δίων Χρυσόστομος), was a Greek reader and philosopher. biography
In 82, he became involved in Rome in a political plot and was consequently banned by Emperor Domitian from Italy and Bithynia. He then led a wandering existence to the example of the cynical bounty philosophers, and traveled through large parts of the Balkans and Asia Minor. After being reinstated by Domitian's successor Nerva, Dio became a personal friend of Trajan, in whom he saw the embodiment of the cynical and stoic ruling ideals. He resumed his travels and sought in many places by popular-scientific lectures on ethical and literary subjects to elevate the moral and cultural level of the population. In doing so, he relaxed through a romantic retreat to the ancient greatness of ancient Greece.
Dio Chrysostomus spent an important part of his considerable ability to decorate his hometown with public buildings, but he seems to have not appreciated much appreciation for his fellow citizens. In 111, he even became a trial, in which the prosecutor Plinius de Jongere judged. He wrote about the process a letter to Emperor Trajan, whose favorable answer has also been preserved. Work
Dio's philosophical views are a human being of cynical and stoic thoughts, and do not bear witness to original thinking. Often he can not even plead of any superficiality. In his language and style, he strives for Attic purity. The composition of his works is generally weak. By his name, about 80 speeches and diatribs have been preserved (of which there are two in reality of his student Favorinus). The others form a colorful collection of sentences: admonitions for princes and cities, comforting words in the past, literary and aesthetic views.
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