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Dio Chrysostom
Dio Chrysostom
c. 40 CE–c. 115 CE · Prusa
Dio Chrysostom ('the golden-mouthed'), also called Dio of Prusa (c. 40-c. 115 CE), was a Greek orator and popular philosopher of the early Roman Empire from Prusa in Asia Minor. About eighty of his speeches and essays survive, blending rhetoric with Stoic and Cynic moral teaching, on subjects ranging from kingship to everyday ethics. He was a leading voice of the early Second Sophistic.
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About Prusa
Prusa, modern Bursa in northwestern Turkey, was a city of Bithynia at the foot of Mount Olympus (Uludağ). It was the home city of the orator and philosopher Dio Chrysostom (Dio of Prusa). The mathematician and astronomer Theodosius is also commonly associated with Bithynia.
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