Academic Publishing Se LAMBERT A view on slavery as a moralistic topic ISBN: 978-3-659-95787-1 Dio Chrysostom was a member ofthe Second Sophistic, an intelectual movement ofthe eaty imperial period in the Graeco- Roman word, Despite its name, Second Sophistc had ite to do withthe original Sophistc of the Sth century BC. whose members Wore fist rate intallectuals of democratic ideological disposition nthe contrary, Dio and the other members of the Second ‘Sophistic were rathor second -rate ones with rather conformistic, Ideas. Dio. Though was a brilantrhetor and a man of a more humane disposition towards the people ofthe lower-classes. his voluminous body of his work that has survived, he used his eynic and stolc background in order, among other things to construct an Ideology of slavery and freedom as spiritual, esoteric conditions of, mind. Thus, his discourses are ofess interest as sources of social Fistor. His vews influenced the Christan Fathors, tus helping thelr construction of social and philosophical theory. So. This book might be of interestto people who would lke to be informed on the history ofthe idea of stavery, especially inthe fist and second century AD,