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Dio (Cocceianus) Prusaeus, also known as Chrysostomus, was an orator and a sophist, one of the precursors of the Second Sophistic movement. He was born in Prousa (Bursa) of Bithynia in the mid-1st century AD and spent part of his life in exile, during the reign of Emperor Domitian. After the emperor’s death he returned to his birthplace, where he was occupied with common affairs and rhetoric. His work includes mostly speeches as well as historical and philosophical treatises. |
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Orator and sophist of late antiquity (4th c. AD). He was born in Antioch, studied in Athens and worked as a teacher of rhetoric and philosophy in Constantinople and Nicomedia. He returned to Antioch in 354 and gained the seat of the school there. He is famous for his classicistic style and his nostalgia for the classical past and the pagan world that had started to fade. Among his numerous pupils were the philosopher Aedesius and John Chrysostom. |
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