SAPERE XIX: Poverty - Work - Human Dignity: The Euboean Speech of Dion of Prusa
Poverty - Work - Human Dignity: The Euboean Speech of Dion of Prusa, introduced, translated and provided with interpretative essays by Gustav Adolf Lehmann / Dorit Engster / Dorothee Gall / Hans Rupprecht Goette / Elisabeth Herrmann-Otto / Werner Heun / Barbara Zehnpfennig, Tübingen 2012.
The volume edited by Gustav Adolf Lehmann contains a complete translation and commentary of the Euboean Speech of Dion of Prusa, of which only the first part, the short novel about the life of the hunter family in the mountain forests of southern Euboea, is generally known. In fact, however, the Euboean speech includes in its second part a significant social and economic programme to give the urban poor in particular a decent basis for work and existence. This programme is closely linked to Dion's lifelong commitment as a politician in his home town of Prusa, but also to his role as a philosophical advisor and orator in Rome. A series of essays opens up the literary, archaeological, political-ethical and political-social content of the work and makes a comprehensive appreciation of this writing possible for the first time.
Reviews:
- C. Auffarth, RPI Virtuell, (01/2013).
- M. Adrian, Biblische Zeitschrift 58 (2014), S. 156-158.
Lehmann, Gustav Adolf; Engster, Dorit; Gall, Dorothee; Goette, Hans Rupprecht; Herrmann-Otto, Elisabeth; Heun, Werner; Zehnpfennig, Barbara
Composite volume; German, Ancient Greek
Published: 2012
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck Verlag: Tübingen
ISBN: 978-3-16-151825-6