biography
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Dion Chrysostom
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also found as Dio Chrysostomus
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pronunciation:
[diyon krisostom]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.40–c.112)
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| biography:
| Greek rhetorician and philosopher, born in Prusa, Bithynia. He went to Rome under Vespasian, but was banished by Domitian. He then visited, in the disguise of a beggar, Thrace, Mysia, and Scythia. On Nerva's accession (96) he returned to Rome, and lived in great honour under him and Trajan. About 80 orations or treatises on politics and philosophy are extant. |
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