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) Vol. 149; no. 1; pp. 127 - 148 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University Press
01.03.2019
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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. |
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ISSN: | 2575-7180 2575-7199 2575-7199 |
DOI: | 10.1353/apa.2019.0004 |