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Author : Andrew G. Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 900454111X
An original and penetrating historiographic study of the final portion of Cassius Dio's Roman History, including the reign of Commodus and the Severan dynasty.
Author : Andrew G. Scott
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004541122
Cassius Dio described his own age as one of “iron and rust.” This study, which is the first of its kind in English, examines the decline and decay that Cassius Dio diagnosed in this period (180-229 CE) through an analysis of the author’s historiographic method and narrative construction. It shows that the final books were a crucial part of Dio’s work, and it explains how Dio approached a period that he considered unworthy of history in view of his larger historiographic project.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004524187
This Companion is the first of its kind on the Roman historian Cassius Dio. It introduces the reader to the life and work of one of the most fundamental but previously neglected historians in the Roman historical cannon.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004510517
This volume addresses the intellectual and political contexts that produced Cassius Dio's (c. 160–c. 230 CE) massive and indispensable synthesis of Roman history. Contributors examine the literary influences, cultural identity and political ideologies of this much read but enigmatic author.
Author : Paul N. Pearson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473847040
Maximinus was a half-barbarian strongman of frightening appearance and colossal size (supposedly over seven feet tall). From humble origins he rose through the ranks, achieved senior command during the invasion of Persia in 232 and ultimately became Emperor due to a military coup in 235. As Emperor he campaigned across the Rhine and Danube for three years until a rebellion in Africa triggered a civil war. This is an accessible narrative account of the life and times of one of Romes most remarkable emperors.
Author : Panayiotis Christoforou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009362498
Explores how Roman emperors were perceived by their subjects in the first two centuries after Augustus.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004335318
Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician brings together case studies that highlight various aspects of Cassius Dio’s Roman History. It puts emphasis on Dio’s text in its historiographical setting, thus allowing us to link and understand the different parts of his work.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004434431
Cassius Dio: The Impact of Violence, War, and Civil War is part of a renewed interest in the Roman historian Cassius Dio. This volume focuses on Dio’s approaches to foreign war and stasis as well as civil war.
Author : Andrew G. Scott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190879594
This historical commentary examines books 79(78)-80(80) of Cassius Dio's Roman History, which cover the period from the death of Caracalla in A. D. 217. to the reign of Severus Alexander and Cassius Dio's retirement from political life in 229. Cassius Dio, a Roman Senator, provides a valuable eyewitness account of this turbulent period, which was marked by the assassination of Caracalla, the rise of Macrinus, Rome's first equestrian emperor, and his subsequent overthrow, the tempestuous, and by all accounts peculiar, reign of Elagabalus, and the continuation of the Severan dynasty under the young Severus Alexander. In addition to elucidating important passages from these books, this study assesses Cassius Dio's political life and its relationship to his literary career; his call to history and time of composition; his historical method; and his attitude toward and subsequent presentation of the later Severan dynasty. In its investigation of books 79(78)-80(80), the work assesses an important stretch of Dio's actual text, which for other parts has been preserved largely in epitome and excerpts. Finally, the work aims to fill a gap in scholarship, as no commentary on these books of Cassius Dio's history has been produced since the nineteenth century, and its publication coincides with a renewed interest in the history and historiography of the Severan period.
Author : Sara Elise Phang,Iain Spence Ph.D.,Douglas Kelly Ph.D.,Peter Londey Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1504 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610690201
The complex role warfare played in ancient Greek and Roman civilizations is examined through coverage of key wars and battles; important leaders, armies, organizations, and weapons; and other noteworthy aspects of conflict. Conflict in Ancient Greece and Rome: The Definitive Political, Social, and Military Encyclopedia is an outstandingly comprehensive reference work on its subject. Covering wars, battles, places, individuals, and themes, this thoroughly cross-referenced three-volume set provides essential support to any student or general reader investigating ancient Greek history and conflicts as well as the social and political institutions of the Roman Republic and Empire. The set covers ancient Greek history from archaic times to the Roman conquest and ancient Roman history from early Rome to the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE. It features a general foreword, prefaces to both sections on Greek history and Roman history, and maps and chronologies of events that precede each entry section. Each section contains alphabetically ordered articles—including ones addressing topics not traditionally considered part of military history, such as "noncombatants" and "war and gender"—followed by cross-references to related articles and suggested further reading. Also included are glossaries of Greek and Latin terms, topically organized bibliographies, and selected primary documents in translation.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004461604
The volume Cassius Dio the Historian: Methods and Approaches explores the Roman historian’s methodology and agendas. He had his own agendas for writing his Roman History, but at the same time, he was a historian with an ambition to tell the history of Rome.
Author : Jussi Rantala
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351970396
This is the first monograph to examine in detail the Ludi Saeculares (Secular Games) of Septimius Severus and argues that the games represented a radical shift from Antonine imperial ideology. To garner popular support and to legitimise his power, Severus conducted an intensive propaganda campaign, but how did he use the ludi to strengthen his power, and what were the messages he conveyed through them? The central theme is ritual, and the idea of ritual as a process that builds collective identity. The games symbolised the new Severan political and social vision and they embodied the idea of Roman identity and the image of Roman society which the emperor wished to promote. The programme of the games was recorded in a stone inscription and this text is analysed in detail, translated into English and contextualised in the socio-political aims of Septimius Severus.
Author : Cassius Dio Cocceianus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Roman law
ISBN : UOM:39015026965668
Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), c. 150-235 CE, was born in Bithynia. Little of his Roman History survives, but missing portions are partly supplied from elsewhere and there are many excerpts. Dio's work is a vital source for the last years of the Roman republic and the first four Roman emperors. Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), ca. 150- 235 CE, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and under the emperor Commodus was an advocate. He held high offices, becoming a close friend of several emperors. He was made governor of Pergamum and Smyrna; consul in 220; proconsul of Africa; governor of Dalmatia and then of Pannonia; and consul again in 229. Of the eighty books of Dio's great work Roman History, covering the era from the legendary landing of Aeneas in Italy to the reign of Alexander Severus (222-235 CE), we possess Books 36-60 (36 and 55-60 have gaps), which cover the years 68 BCE-47 CE. The missing portions are partly supplied, for the earlier gaps by Zonaras, who relies closely on Dio, and for some later gaps (Book 35 onwards) by John Xiphilinus (of the eleventh century). There are also many excerpts. The facilities for research afforded by Dio's official duties and his own industry make him a very vital source for Roman history of the last years of the republic and the first four emperors. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Dio Cassius is in nine volumes.
Author : Adam M. Kemezis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107062726
This book explores how Greek authors who witnessed sudden political change reacted by re-imagining the larger narrative of the Roman past.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009383028
This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers generous selections from Cassius Dio's account of the Julio Claudians, with accompanying maps, appendices and a thorough, contextualising Introduction. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in English translation and has been written and reviewed by experienced teachers.