The Seventh, or, Euboean, Discourse

by Chrysostom, Dio (1932)

Key Passage

I desired to show in some way or other that poverty is no hopeless impediment to a life and existence befitting free men who are willing to work with their hands, but leads them on to deeds and actions that are far better and more useful and more in accordance with nature than those to which riches are wont to attract most men.  (p.343)

Keywords

Ancient Greece, History, Labor, Profit, Hesiod, Class

Themes

Dio Chrysostom, Ancient Greece

Translator

Cohoon, J. W.

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