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Euboean Discourse

Euboikos

An oration describing a shipwrecked visit to a self-sufficient rural family on Euboea idealizes simple subsistence life over urban luxury, using the tale as a vehicle for Dio's broader Stoic-Cynic critique of wealth and the city.

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