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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-11-28
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9004335315
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Jesper Majbom Madsen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-10-03
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 1350033391
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-03-07
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9004510516
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Adam M. Kemezis
Publisher: Historiography of Rome and Its
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9789004510487
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Cassius Dio (c. 160-c. 230) is a familiar name to Roman historians, but still an enigmatic one. His text has shaped our understanding of his own period and earlier eras, but basic questions remain about his Greek and Roman cultural identities and his literary and intellectual influences. Contributors to this volume read Dio against different backgrounds including the politics of the Severan court, the cultural milieu of the Second Sophistic and Roman traditions of historiography and political theory. Dio emerges as not just a recounter of events, but a representative of his times in all their complexity"--
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-08-26
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9004405151
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Christopher Burden-Strevens
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-11-05
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9004384553
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-06-15
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9004434437
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-05-25
Total Pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9004461604
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-02-27
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 9004524185
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Jesper Majbom Madsen
Publisher: Historiography of Rome and Its
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9789004461482
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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"--
