Nederlandse vertaling, Dion van Prusa, Rede 70, Over de filosofie

Dio of Prusa’s discourse 70, On Philosophy, is one of the most underrated texts in the history of philosophy. Dio, also known as “chrystomos”, “with the golden mounth” (ca. 40-115 AD), was a traveling rhetorician, a type of sophist in the Roman first century, who could bring together thousands of listeners for his spectacle orations. Much like the sophists of classical Greece, Dio made a living out of his capacity to argue well, play with words and generate wonder through his