Dio of Prusa
Dio of Prusa, (Dio Cocceianus), later called Chrysostom, ‘golden-mouthed’) (c. AD 40/50–after 110),Greek orator and popular philosopher. Born of wealthy family in Prusa (mod. Bursa, NW Turkey) in Bithynia, Dio began a career as a rhetorician at Rome, but soon fell under the spell of the Stoic philosopher Musonius Rufus (see Stoicism). Involved in a political intrigue early in the reign of Domitian, he was banished (relegatus) both from Rome and from his native province, and spent many years travelling through Greece, the Balkans, and Asia Minor as a wandering preacher of Stoic-Cynic philosophy. Rehabilitated by Nerva, he became a friend of Trajan, but continued to travel widely as an epideictic orator. He later retired to his family estates in Bithynia and became a notable in the province (he figures...
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