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Jones, Christopher Prestige was born in 1940 in Kent, United Kingdom. Son of William Prestige and Irene May (McCreddie) Jones.
( The Greek orator Dio Chrysostom is a colorful figure, ...)
The Greek orator Dio Chrysostom is a colorful figure, and along with Plutarch one of the major sources of information about Greek civilization during the early Roman Empire. C.P. Jones offers here the first full-length portrait of Dio in English and, at the same time, a view of life in cities such as Alexandria, Tarsus, and Rhodes in the first centuries of our era. Skillfully combining literary and historical evidence, Mr. Jones describes Dio's birthplace, education, and early career. He examines the civic speeches for what they reveal about Dio's life and art, as well as the life, thought, and language of Greek cities in this period. From these and other works he reinterprets Dio's attitude toward the emperors and Rome. The account is as lucid and pleasantly written as it is carefully documented.
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( Heroic figures such as Heracles, Perseus, and Jason we...)
Heroic figures such as Heracles, Perseus, and Jason were seen by the Greeks not as mythical figures but as real people who in a bygone age traveled the world, settled new lands, and left descendants who, generation after generation, could trace their ancestry back to the "time of heroes." From the Homeric age to Byzantium, peoples and nations sharing the same fictive ancestry appealed to their kinship when forging military alliances, settling disputes, or negotiating trade connections. In this intriguing study of the political uses of perceived kinship, Christopher Jones gives us an unparalleled view of mythic belief in action. Throughout the centuries of Greek preeminence, the Roman Republic and Empire, and into the early Christian era, examples of kinship diplomacy abound. Ancient historians report, for instance, that when the forces of Alexander the Great reached what is now southern Pakistan they encountered a people called the Siboi, whom they judged to be descendants of Heracles. Since Alexander was himself a descendant of the same hero, the invading Macedonians and the Siboi were clearly kinsmen and so parted in peace. Examining the very origins of ancient diplomacy, and kinship as one of its basic constituents, Kinship Diplomacy addresses fundamental questions about communal and national identity and sheds new light on the force of Greek mythic traditions.
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Jones, Christopher Prestige was born in 1940 in Kent, United Kingdom. Son of William Prestige and Irene May (McCreddie) Jones.
Bachelor, Oxford University, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy Classical Philology, Harvard University, 1965.
From lecturer to professor University Toronto, Canada, 1965-1992, chair department classics Canada, 1986-1990. Professor classics and history Harvard University, Cambridge, 1992-1997, George Martin Lane professor classics and history, since 1997. Visiting lecturer Harvard University, 1968.
Associate professor Ecole Normale Supérieure de Jeunes Filles, Paris, 1979, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 1992. Acting vice dean Faculty Arts and Sciences, University Toronto, 1985-1986.
( Heroic figures such as Heracles, Perseus, and Jason we...)
( The Greek orator Dio Chrysostom is a colorful figure, ...)
( The works of the second-century satirist Lucian--of wh...)
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Fellow Royal Society of Canada, American Numismatic Society. Member American Philological Association (chair subcommittee epigraphical bibliographical 1981-1989, subcommittee cartography 1986-1990), American Academy Arts and Sciences, German Archeological Institute (correspondent member since 1992), American Philosophical Society.