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Politics, Justice, and Reform in Dio's Euboicus
- TAPA
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 149, Number 1, Spring 2019
- pp. 127-148
- 10.1353/apa.2019.0004
- Article
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This paper uses a close reading of Dio's Euboicus to reflect on the understandings of law, justice, and politics among Greek intellectuals in the high empire more generally. The Euboicus can be read as a satire concerning urban political autonomy in an empire; these rituals of political autonomy and judgment, Dio argues, were ultimately empty. Accordingly, in the second part of the speech, Dio presents a vision of social reform in which he envisions the possibility of a world without legal politics.