The library of Dio Chrysostom

1. Homer 32 authority · 7 neutral · 2 refuted · 4 extended · 4 endorsed 49 citations

   Orations

   oration 1 · oration 3 · oration 4 · oration 6 · oration 9 · oration 12 · oration 7 · oration 32 · and 20 more chapters

   49 citations

   For Achilles said that he would rather, living, be a serf to a landless man with no great means of livelihood, than rule over all the perished dead;

2. Iliad Homer 7 authority · 1 neutral · 2 refuted · 3 extended 13 citations

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   oration 2 · oration 8 · oration 11 · oration 12 · oration 7 · oration 32 · oration 35 · oration 36 · and 5 more chapters

   13 citations

   Here he says he will tell only of the wrath of Achilles and the calamities and destruction of the Achaeans—that they suffered many and terrible things and many perished and remained unburied, as though these were the greatest of what happened and worthy of the poem;

3. Odyssey Homer 5 authority · 2 neutral · 1 refuted · 3 extended 11 citations

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   oration 2 · oration 8 · oration 9 · oration 11 · oration 13 · oration 7 · oration 32 · oration 33 · and 3 more chapters

   11 citations

   And after this Menelaus for a long time wasted away all over Greece, bewailing his misfortunes, begging each of the kings to aid him.

4. Euripides 2 authority · 2 neutral · 2 refuted · 2 extended · 2 endorsed 10 citations

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   oration 2 · oration 7 · oration 32 · oration 37 · oration 52 · oration 64 · oration 87 · oration 88

   10 citations

   And indeed Euripides, no less famous than any of the poets, brings Jocasta in, speaking to Eteocles, urging him to desist from overreaching his brother, somewhat thus:

5. Hesiod 3 authority · 1 neutral · 1 extended · 1 endorsed 6 citations

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   oration 2 · oration 12 · oration 37 · oration 80 · oration 84 · oration 87

   6 citations

   Muses of Pieria, who glorify with songs, come, tell of Zeus, your own father, hymning him, through whom mortal men are alike unspoken and spoken of, named and unnamed, by the will of great Zeus.

6. History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2 authority · 1 neutral 3 citations

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   oration 11 · oration 53 · oration 88

   3 citations

   when they name the Sciritan company of the Lacedaemonians, which never existed, as Thucydides says, and the Athenians honor Harmodius and Aristogeiton most of all, as having freed the city and killed the tyrant.

7. Sophocles 2 refuted · 1 endorsed 3 citations

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   oration 7 · oration 52 · oration 60

   3 citations

   since even against these very verses one of the very philosophers has spoken in opposition — one whom no one, it seems to me, would ever say spoke against these out of contentiousness, and against what was said by Sophocles about wealth — against the former a little, against those of Sophocles more — yet not, as we now, at length, since he was not expounding offhand with great licence, but writing in books.

8. Aristotle 2 neutral 2 citations

   Orations

   oration 47 · oration 53

   2 citations

   For I, seeing other cities ambitious about such things, supposed — I mean not only those in Asia and Syria and Cilicia, but these neighbouring ones close at hand, the city of the Nicomedians, that of the Nicaeans, these Caesareans, men noble and thoroughly Greek, but inhabiting a city far smaller than ours, and the men engaged in public affairs in each, even if they are at variance about other mat …

9. Lycurgus 1 authority · 1 endorsed 2 citations

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   oration 88 · oration 22

   2 citations

   But Lycurgus too I would counsel you to read, who is lighter than these and shows in his discourses a certain simplicity and nobility of character.

10. Pindar 1 neutral · 1 endorsed 2 citations

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    oration 2 · oration 33

    2 citations

    and Pindar both for the brilliance of his nature and because he praised Alexander's own ancestor and namesake, the one surnamed the Philhellene, having composed for him the line, 'O you who bear the name of the blessed sons of Dardanus.

11. Plato 1 refuted · 1 endorsed 2 citations

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    oration 2 · oration 53

    2 citations

    "He never represented them as tasting fish, and that though they were encamped beside the sea—calling the Hellespont, as it is, 'rich in fish' on each occasion;

12. Works and Days Hesiod 1 authority · 1 refuted 2 citations

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    oration 2 · oration 7

    2 citations

    those, then, to which any of these harms whatever attaches, let none of the free and decent men take up, nor know how, neither himself nor to teach his own children, as one who will be a worker neither according to Hesiod nor according to us, if he handle any such thing, but will have the illiberal reproach at once of idleness and of base gain, being called vulgar and useless and simply wicked.

13. Aeschines 1 endorsed 1 citation

    Orations

    oration 88

    1 citation

    Of the orators, who does not know the best—that Demosthenes surpassed all the orators in power of delivery and cleverness of thought and abundance of words, and Lysias in brevity and simplicity and continuity of thought and in concealing his cleverness?

14. Aeschylus 1 neutral 1 citation

    Orations

    oration 52

    1 citation

    But Euripides at once made them making a defence concerning their former neglect, that in so many years they had neither approached Philoctetes nor given him any help.

15. Anabasis Xenophon 1 authority 1 citation

    Orations

    oration 88

    1 citation

    For inasmuch, I think, as he mingled the discourses with the actions, having neither received them by hearsay nor imitated them, but himself acting and speaking at the same time, he made them most plausible in all his works, and in this one most of all, which I happened to mention.

16. Aristophanes 1 authority 1 citation

    Orations

    oration 52

    1 citation

    "But he, in turn, licked round the mouth of Sophocles, the honey-anointed, as of a little jar.

17. Demosthenes 1 neutral 1 citation

    Orations

    oration 88

    1 citation

    Of the orators, who does not know the best—that Demosthenes surpassed all the orators in power of delivery and cleverness of thought and abundance of words, and Lysias in brevity and simplicity and continuity of thought and in concealing his cleverness?

18. Histories Herodotus 1 refuted 1 citation

    Orations

    oration 37

    1 citation

    For I do not heed Herodotus, but the tomb and Simonides, who inscribed upon the dead of the Corinthians buried in Salamis:

19. Hyperides 1 endorsed 1 citation

    Orations

    oration 88

    1 citation

    For the powers of these are simpler and their structures easier to grasp, and the beauty of their words in no way falls short of those others.

20. Lysias 1 neutral 1 citation

    Orations

    oration 88

    1 citation

    Of the orators, who does not know the best—that Demosthenes surpassed all the orators in power of delivery and cleverness of thought and abundance of words, and Lysias in brevity and simplicity and continuity of thought and in concealing his cleverness?

21. Theogony Hesiod 1 extended 1 citation

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    oration 2

    1 citation

    "And it appears that not Homer only, but Hesiod too, was of this mind, that both philosophy and true rhetoric befit the king;

22. Xenophon 1 authority 1 citation

    Orations

    oration 88

    1 citation

    But Xenophon I, for my part, think alone of the ancients able to suffice a statesman:

23. the Histories Herodotus 1 endorsed 1 citation

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    oration 88

    1 citation

    With Herodotus, then, if ever you have need of cheerfulness, you will consort with much repose.

Each of these stands at a single passage, named once and not held by the library. The work that names it carries the anchor.

Orations

fable of the owl and the birds · Athenian law of erasing a condemned citizen's name · Athenian law on citizenship and slander · Attic drinking-songs (skolia) · Cynic teaching/boast against Fortune · Delphic inscription 'Know thyself' ¶ · Delphic maxim (know thyself) · Delphic oracle concerning Theagenes · Delphic oracle to Croesus · Delphic oracle to the Athenians · Delphic oracle to the Athenians on Sicilia · Delphic oracle to the Lacedaemonians · Egyptian temple and stele records · Electra · Elegy of Sardanapalus · Ephorus · Fable of the eyes and the honey · Greek myth of Deucalion's flood · Greek myth of Phaethon · Iambic poetry (fragment on the ideal general) · Iliad (implied Homeric poetry) · Indictment of Socrates (charge of Meletus) · Laconian legislation · Laconian marching-songs · Later poem on Helen · Law of Leptines · Law on term limits for public office · Laws concerning impiety toward the dead · Laws of Draco ¶ · Laws of Numa · Laws of Solon ¶ · Laws of Zaleucus · Letter to the emperor and the emperor's reply · Libyan myth · Libyan myth of the beast-woman · Menander · Mock indictment against Dion · Myth of Ixion · Myth of Prometheus's punishment · Oracle counsel to the Lacedaemonians on remaining unwalled · Oracles and omens of birds · Oracles concerning Archilochus · Persian account of the Persian Wars · Phocylides · Poem/report on Hecuba's transformation · Popular belief about divine identity · Pythagorean teaching/wisdom tradition · Sayings/doctrine attributed to Critias · The Delphic oracle's injunction (Know Thyself) · Theban flute-playing epigram tradition · Theognis · Theopompus · Tragic poetry (unspecified plays) · Tragic poetry on Oedipus and Thebes · Tragic poetry on Thyestes, Atreus, and Orestes · Unnamed orator's saying about the balance and gain · Unnamed saying about being struck by a woman or senseless child · Unspecified saying/doctrine on pleasing the multitude · Unspecified tragedies (on the house of Pelops) · Unspecified tragedy on mourning birth and death · a proverbial saying about drones and honey · a tragedy (unnamed, on Electra and her exiled brother) · argument on opinion versus truth in Homer · definition of the city / political philosophy · epigram on Adeimantus · epigram on the Argo · epigram on the Corinthian dead at Salamis · epigram on the statue of Nicanor · epigram on the tomb of Midas · fable of the fox ¶ · gnomic verses (maxims) · law on inanimate objects that cause death · letter of the emperor · maxims of the Seven Sages · myth of transformation into birds (nightingale/hoopoe) · myth/riddle of the Sphinx · oracle concerning Archelaus · oracle given to the narrator · oracle regarding Cypselus · oracle to Laius ¶ · oracle/legend of Croesus · oracular pronouncement on Socrates' wisdom · oracular utterances of Apis · oral tale of the woman of Elis or Arcadia · philosophy in its most exact form · physiognomy (the art of the physiognomists) · poem addressing Zeus as Dodonaean craftsman · poem on his broken marriage agreement · poem on the affair of Nessus and Deianeira · popular opinion on Fortune's instability and faithlessness · practice of philosophizing in all company · precedent of Solon's debt cancellation · prophecy concerning the bow of Heracles and the fall of Troy · proverbial saying on the goods of friends · report on Greek gymnasium customs · sacred discourse of the Magi (chariot of Zeus) · saying of Olympias · saying upon the death of a son · sayings on the Athenian assembly · tale of Orpheus and the Macedonians · the Athenian-Spartan war for primacy · the Socratic argument/teaching · the proverb 'One man is no man' · the teachings of Socrates on rule and kingship · the words of Apollo to the tyrant of Sicyon · tragedies concerning Orestes · unnamed comic poet ¶ · unnamed poems and philosophical treatises on concord · unnamed poetic saying · unspecified Socratic dialogues · unspecified description of a storm-tossed sea · unspecified drinking-songs and prayer · unspecified epic or gnomic poem · unspecified epic tradition · unspecified epigram tradition · unspecified gnomic poetry · unspecified lament on women as a counterfeit evil · unspecified law on abolition of debts and land redistribution · unspecified love-songs · unspecified lyric poetry · unspecified martial verses · unspecified parody poem on the chariot race · unspecified prophetic song attributed to the Sibyl · unspecified recent rhetorical works · unspecified saying of an ancient orator · unspecified saying on Fortune as a turning of the scale · unspecified saying on Homer's nature · unspecified saying to the Athenians about Samos · unspecified verse (herdsmen of men) · unspecified verse calling Zeus father of men and gods · unspecified verse on Eurytus's death · unspecified verse on distrust · unspecified verse on perjury and fate · unspecified verses on Report/Fame · unspecified verses on the fickle multitude · writings on the Iliad, Odyssey, and Margites · writings on the same Homeric thesis

2 works in the library quote Dio Chrysostom — 8 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

Hugo Grotius 7 citations · Basil of Caesarea 1 citation

The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of Dio Chrysostom is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 5 authority · 2 neutral 7 citations · 9 passages

   book i, chapter i. · ch. 12 · chapter xi.: on promises. · ch. 24 4 passages anchored here · ch. 33 2 passages anchored here

   Dion Chrysostom is explicitly cited twice, once by variant spelling Dio Chrysostom, on burial's moral status.

   Next to the right of ambassadors Dion Chrysostom places that of burying the dead, and calls it a moral act, sanctioned by the unwritten law of nature:

2. Letters Basil of Caesarea 1 neutral 1 citation

   letter 352

   Demosthenes named explicitly as a standard of oratorical force.

   For how could I not be, sending a speech to a man of such a kind, one capable of showing, by his own facility in oratory, that the wisdom of Plato and the force of Demosthenes are babbled about for nothing — while what is mine is such as a gnat set beside an elephant?