Wanneer een bergdorp meer eer toekomt dan een metropool: ethiek, politiek en filosofie bij Dion Chrysostomos Universiteit Gent
Throughout his oeuvre, the first century orator Dio Chrysostom shows a remarkably consistent ethical system. It seems that he developed this system in close relationship to the political situation of the cities in the eastern Roman Empire, as he pleads everywhere for a deontological behavior in private as well as in public life. Whereas the many cities are struggling with each other for their own interests, Dio incites his audience to imitate ...