DIO CHRYSOSTOM°

DIO CHRYSOSTOM°
DIO CHRYSOSTOM° ("golden-mouthed," called so for his eloquence; Dio of Prusa; c. 40–120 C.E.), orator. According to the testimony of his biographer, Synesius (c. 365–413/414; Bishop of Cyrene), in one of his speeches Dio described the essenes as a utopian-like community living "in the interior of Palestine" near the Dead Sea in the vicinity of Sodom. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: M. Stern (ed.), Greek and Latin Authors on Jews and Judaism. vol. 1 (1974), 538–40. (Shimon Gibson (2nd ed.)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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