Cassius dio : greek intellectual and roman politician.

Winner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award 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 va...

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Language: English

Published: [S.l.] : Brill, 2016.

Series: Historiography of Rome and Its Empire 1.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2016, ISBN: 9789004303867.

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Call Number: PA3947.Z5 C37 2016

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Between History and Politics /
  • Carsten Hjort Lange and Jesper Majbom Madsen
  • 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 /
  • Søren Lund Sørensen
  • Mock the Triumph: Cassius Dio, Triumph and Triumph-Like Celebrations /
  • Carsten Hjort Lange
  • 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
  • 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
  • Parrhêsia 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
  • Bibliography
  • Index.