Rhetorical Loyalty and Counterpower in Dio Chrysostom. Sophist and Emperor in the Third Kingship Oration
Cinotti, Vincent
Rhetorical Loyalty and Counterpower in Dio Chrysostom. Sophist and Emperor in the Third Kingship Oration - 2023.
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Dio of Prusa’s third oration is characterized by significant power dynamics between political power and philosophical authority, and also by a latent generic tension between the speculum principis, or mirror of the ideal prince, and panegyric of the actual ruler: Dio goes beyond court oratory and constructs a personal relationship with the emperor. In parallel, although the text calls upon universal ethical norms, the imagery used to make this point implicitly asserts the preeminence of paideia and its importance for Greek identity, between the first and second century AD, thus heralding the major themes of the Second Sophistic.
Rhetorical Loyalty and Counterpower in Dio Chrysostom. Sophist and Emperor in the Third Kingship Oration - 2023.
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Dio of Prusa’s third oration is characterized by significant power dynamics between political power and philosophical authority, and also by a latent generic tension between the speculum principis, or mirror of the ideal prince, and panegyric of the actual ruler: Dio goes beyond court oratory and constructs a personal relationship with the emperor. In parallel, although the text calls upon universal ethical norms, the imagery used to make this point implicitly asserts the preeminence of paideia and its importance for Greek identity, between the first and second century AD, thus heralding the major themes of the Second Sophistic.
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