Politics, Justice, and Reform in Dio's Euboicus

This paper uses a close reading of Dio's Euboicus to reflect on the understandings of law, justice, and politics among Greek intellectuals in the high empire more generally. The Euboicus can be read as a satire concerning urban political autonomy in an empire; these rituals of political autonom...

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Published in:TAPA (Society for Classical Studies) 2019-04, Vol.149 (1), p.127-148
Main Author: BRYEN, ARI Z.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cities
Dio Chrysostom (40?-112?)
Judgment
Law
Narratives
Politics
Poverty
Rituals
Roman civilization
Speech
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Summary:This paper uses a close reading of Dio's Euboicus to reflect on the understandings of law, justice, and politics among Greek intellectuals in the high empire more generally. The Euboicus can be read as a satire concerning urban political autonomy in an empire; these rituals of political autonomy and judgment, Dio argues, were ultimately empty. Accordingly, in the second part of the speech, Dio presents a vision of social reform in which he envisions the possibility of a world without legal politics.
ISSN:2575-7180
2575-7199
2575-7199
DOI:10.1353/apa.2019.0004