Cassius Dio The Historian

Author : Jesper Majbom Madsen,Carsten Hjort Lange
Publisher : Historiography of Rome and Its
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9004461485

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Cassius Dio the Historian by Jesper Majbom Madsen,Carsten Hjort Lange Pdf

"This volume focuses on Cassius Dio as a historian - the only historian who allows us to follow the developments of Rome's political institutions during a more than thousand year period, from the foundation of the city to Cassius Dio's retirement from public life in 229 CE. The volume explores the Roman historian's methodology and agendas, all of which influenced his approaches to Rome's history. It offers a reassessment that rests on a deeper study of his relationship with historiographical traditions as well as his narrative and structural approach to Roman history. It examines Cassius Dio as both a writer in the historiographic tradition with his own agenda for writing The Roman History and a historian with his own ambition to tell the history of Rome. Contributors are: Valérie Fromentin, Mads O. Lindholmer, Christopher Baron, Konstantin V. Markov, Josip Parat, Christopher Burden-Strevens, Adam M. Kemezis, Andrew G. Scott, Jesper M. Madsen, Alex Imrie, Graham Andrews, Eric Adler, Carsten H. Lange, Antonio Pistellato, Jesper Carlsen, Brandon Jones, Julie Langford"--

Author : Andrew G. Scott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190879594

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Emperors and Usurpers by Andrew G. Scott Pdf

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 : Christopher Burden-Strevens,Mads Lindholmer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004384552

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Cassius Dio’s Forgotten History of Early Rome by Christopher Burden-Strevens,Mads Lindholmer Pdf

Cassius Dio’s Forgotten History of Early Rome brings together ten studies on the literary, historiographical, rhetorical, and generic and textual dimensions of the least explored section of Dio’s enormous history of Rome: Books 1–21.

Author : Peter Michael Swan
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195167740

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The Augustan Succession by Peter Michael Swan Pdf

"This commentary pays close critical attention to Dio's historical sources, methods, and assumptions as it also strives to present him as a figure in his own right. During a long life (ca. 164-after 229), Dio served as a Roman senator under seven emperors from Commodus to Severus Alexander, governed three Roman provinces, and was twice consul."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004405158

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Cassius Dio and the Late Roman Republic by Anonim Pdf

Cassius Dio and the Late Roman Republic offers new understandings of Dio’s late republican narrative both as a well-informed historical source and a skillful narrative informed by the rich tradition of Greco-Roman history writing.

Author : Cassius,Cassius Dio Cocceianus
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Rome
ISBN : 0198797893

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Cassius Dio, Roman History by Cassius,Cassius Dio Cocceianus Pdf

"This volume provides a new translation of Books 57 and 58 of Cassius Dio's Roman History and the 'fragments' of these books preserved in later Byzantine epitomes, as well as the first English language commentary to examine them in their entirety. Dio's Roman History covers almost 1,000 years from the founding of Rome up to the early third century AD, with Books 57 and 58 focusing on the reign of the emperor Tiberius (AD 14-37): his account of this period is one of the most important to have survived from antiquity, not least as it preserves a historiographical tradition in some ways distinct from that of Tacitus and Suetonius. These books also reveal something of his authorial preoccupations and present a glimpse into the mind of the historian, and especially into his understanding of the mechanics of imperial government. The focus of the commentary is both historical and historiographical, in so far as it aims to illuminate not only issues arising from Dio's account of the Tiberian principate, but also to reveal the unity of his work and literary programme: a series of appendices complement the analysis by providing discussion of some of the key historical problems surrounding Dio and the reign of Tiberius. The translation (the first since the Loeb Classical Library edition of E. Cary) aims for both clarity and accuracy, and particular care has been taken to separate the various textual traditions that have been used to reconstruct the lost portions of Dio's text. An accompanying general Introduction offers an accessible overview of Cassius Dio's approach to history based on the latest research in the field, and will be of particular use to graduate and undergraduate students coming to the text for the first time"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004434431

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Cassius Dio: The Impact of Violence, War, and Civil War by Anonim Pdf

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 : Caillan Davenport,Christopher Mallan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1108926231

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Emperors and Political Culture in Cassius Dio's Roman History by Caillan Davenport,Christopher Mallan Pdf

The Roman History of Cassius Dio provides one of the most important continuous narratives of the early Roman empire, spanning the inception of the Principate under Augustus to the turbulent years of the Severan Dynasty. It has been a major influence on how scholars have thought about Roman imperial history, from the Byzantine period down to the present day, as well as being a work of considerable literary sophistication and merit. This book, the product of an international collaborative project, brings together thirteen chapters written by scholars based in Europe, North America, and Australia. They offer new approaches to Dio's representation of Roman emperors, their courtiers, and key political constituencies such as the army and the people, as well as the literary techniques he uses to illuminate his narrative, from speeches to wonder narratives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004461604

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Cassius Dio the Historian by Anonim Pdf

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 : Jesper Majbom Madsen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781350033399

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Cassius Dio by Jesper Majbom Madsen Pdf

This volume offers an introduction to the life and work of the 3rd-century-AD Greco-Roman senator and historian Cassius Dio, whose work, although imperfectly preserved in 80 books, is of fundamental importance to our understanding of Roman history. It is said that Dio is not one of the best ancient historians and his Roman history, due to its sheer size, is often imprecise and superficial in its analysis. It has also been assumed that there was no political agenda behind the work, and that Dio's principal value to us is as a reliable copyist, who mediated the works of other, and better sources. This introduction to his life and work offers a different picture. Here, Dio is presented through his Greek cultural lens as a politician with a clear vision for how Roman politics and government should be organized. Carefully selected examples will be the starting points for fresh critical analysis of Dio's work and its legacy, both in antiquity and through to the Enlightenment. The book assumes no familiarity with Cassius Dio, his writing or context. All text will be translated and suggested further reading will point readers towards avenues for more detailed study.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004335318

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Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician by Anonim Pdf

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 : Valentina Arena,Jonathan R. W. Prag,Andrew Stiles
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444339659

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A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic by Valentina Arena,Jonathan R. W. Prag,Andrew Stiles Pdf

An insightful and original exploration of Roman Republic politics In A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic, editors Valentina Arena and Jonathan Prag deliver an incisive and original collection of forty contributions from leading academics representing various intellectual and academic traditions. The collected works represent some of the best scholarship in recent decades and adopt a variety of approaches, each of which confronts major problems in the field and contributes to ongoing research. The book represents a new, updated, and comprehensive view of the political world of Republican Rome and some of the included essays are available in English for the first time. Divided into six parts, the discussions consider the institutionalized loci, political actors, and values, rituals, and discourse that characterized Republican Rome. The Companion also offers several case studies and sections on the history of the interpretation of political life in the Roman Republic. Key features include: A thorough introduction to the Roman political world as seen through the wider lenses of Roman political culture Comprehensive explorations of the fundamental components of Roman political culture, including ideas and values, civic and religious rituals, myths, and communicative strategies Practical discussions of Roman Republic institutions, both with reference to their formal rules and prescriptions, and as patterns of social organization In depth examinations of the 'afterlife' of the Roman Republic, both in ancient authors and in early modern and modern times Perfect for students of all levels of the ancient world, A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic will also earn a place in the libraries of scholars and students of politics, political history, and the history of ideas.

Author : Fergus Millar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:422653240

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A Study of Cassius Dio by Fergus Millar Pdf

Author : Alain M. Gowing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029700195

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The Triumviral Narratives of Appian and Cassius Dio by Alain M. Gowing Pdf

Author : Cassius Dio Cocceianus
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1987-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780140444483

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The Roman History by Cassius Dio Cocceianus Pdf

Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC�AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city after decades of savage civil war. This selection from Cassius Dio�s Roman History gives the fullest description of that long struggle and ultimate triumph � detailing the brutal battles and political feuds that led to the collapse of Rome�s 400-year-old republic, and Augustus� subsequent reign as emperor. Included are accounts of military campaigns from Ethiopia to Yugoslavia, and of long conflict with Antony and Cleopatra. With skill and artistry, Dio brings to life many speeches from the era � among them Augustus� damning indictment of Antony�s passion for the Egyptian queen � and provides a fascinating account of the debate between the great general Agrippa and Maecenas on the virtues of republicanism and monarchy.