Cassius Dio : Greek intellectual and Roman politician /

Cassius Dio : Greek intellectual and Roman politician / edited by Carsten Hjort Lange, Jesper Majbom Madsen.

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"Cassius Dio : Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician, a collection of essays on this historian, is the first to appear in the new Brill series Historiography of Rome and its Empire. The volume brings together case studies that highlight various aspects of Dio's Roman History, focusing on...

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Other Authors: Lange, Carsten Hjort (Editor), Madsen, Jesper Majbom (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Series:Historiography of Rome and its empire ; v. 1.
Subjects:
Cassius Dio Cocceianus.
Cassius Dio Cocceianus > Political and social views.
Cassius Dio Cocceianus. > Roman history.
Historians > Rome > Biography.
Politicians > Rome > Biography.
Greeks > Rome > Biography.
Rome > Historiography.
Table of Contents:
  • Between history and politics / Carsten Hjort Lange and Jesper Majbom Madsen
  • Part 1. Cassius Dio and the transformation from republic to empire
  • Cassius Dio's Sulla : exemplum of cruelty and Republican dictator / Gianpaolo Urso
  • Cassius Dio on Pompey's extraordinary commands / Marianne Coudry
  • The sources of cassius Dio for the Roman civil wars of 49-30 BC / Richard Westall
  • Cassius Dio and the foreigners / Soren Lund Sorensen
  • Mock the triumph : Cassius Dio, triumph and triumph-like celebrations / Carsten Hjort Lange
  • Part 2. Imperial history in Cassius Dio
  • Cassius Dio and the city of Rome / Alain M. Gowing
  • Criticising the benefactors : the Severans and the return of dynastic rule / Jesper Majbom Madsen
  • Dio the dissident : the portrait of Severus in the Roman history / Jussi Rantala
  • Cassius Dio's secret history of Elagabalus / Josiah Osgood
  • Part 3. Rhetoric and speeches in Cassius Dio
  • Fictitious speeches, envy, and the habituation to authority : writing the collapse of the Roman Republic / Christopher Burden-Strevens
  • Speeches in Dio Cassius / Andriy Fomin
  • Dio, Caesar and the Vesontio mutineers (38.34-47) : a rhetoric of lies / Adam Kemezis
  • Parrhesia in Cassius Dio / Christopher Mallan
  • Historiography and panegyric : the deconstruction of imperial representation in Cassius Dio's Roman history / Verena Schulz
  • Cassius Dio : Pepaideumenos and politician on kingship / Brandon Jones
  • Alexander the Great in Cassius Dio / Jesper Carlsen.

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