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Dio Chrysostom

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Dio Chrysostom (c. 40-c. 115)

Greek sophist and rhetorician, maternal grandfather of Dio Cassius, born at Prusa in Bithynia. He settled in Rome, was banished by the emperor Domitian, but returned under Nerva. Eighty ‘speeches’ attributed to Dio Chrysostom have survived; they are really essays on political, moral, and philosophical subjects.
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