Olympic Oration or On Man's First Conception of God
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Olympic Oration or On Man's First Conception of God
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The Olympic Oration or On Man's First Conception of God is a speech delivered by Dio Chrysostom at the Olympic games in the 90s or 100s AD. The speech uses the Statue of Zeus at Olympia as a springboard to discuss how human beings envision God, both in terms of where human ideas about God come from and about the appropriateness of depicting God in human form. In the process, Dio contrasts literature and the visual arts. The oration is thus an important work in the history of ancient Greek theolo
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