Cassius Dio : : the impact of violence, war, and civil war / / edited by Carsten H. Lange, Andrew G. Scott.

• Superior document: Historiography of Rome and its empire ; Volume 8
• TeilnehmendeR: Lange, Carsten Hjort,; Scott, Andrew G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Historiography of Rome and its empire ; Volume 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Includes index.

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. The impact of war on Rome as well as on the history of Rome has long be recognised by scholars, and adding to that, recent years have seen an increasing interest in the impact of civil war on Roman society. Dio’s views on violence, war, and civil war are an inter-related part of his overall project, which sought to understand Roman history on its own historical and historiographical terms and within a long-range view of the Roman past that investigated the realities of power.

Table of Contents

Violence as an Interpretive Category in Cassius Dio: the Terror under Sulla in 82 BCE / Piotr Berdowski -- Gossip of Violence and Violence of Gossip: Livia's Lament and Its Remedy in Cassius Dio's Severan Context / Joel Allen -- Causation and Morality: Cassius Dio on the Origins of Rome's External Wars under the Republic / John Rich -- Caesar's Campaigns in Cassius Dio's Late Republic / Mads Ortving Lindholmer -- Cassius Dio and the Roman Empire: the Impact of the Severan Wars on Dio's Narrative / Estelle Bertrand -- "A Warlike Man" - Cassius Dio's Perception and Interpretation of the Imperial Military persona / Wolfgang Havener -- The War Comes Home: Rome and Romans during Civil Conflict in the Roman History / Alex Imrie -- Talking Heads: the Rostra as a Conspicuous Civil War Monument / Carsten Hjort Lange -- Cassius Dio, Cicero and the Complexity of Civil War / Ayelet Peer -- Cassius Dio on Senatorial Activities as a Factor of Political Instability and Civil War / Konstantin V. Markov -- Cassius Dio and Senatorial Memory of Civil War in the 190s / Adam M. Kemezis -- Cassius Dio, and Civil War / Sulochana R. Asirvatham -- "If You Do Wrong, You Will Be King!": the Civil War Victor in Cassius Dio / Josiah Osgood -- Civil War and Governmental Change: From the Achievements of Augustus to the Failures of the Severans / Andrew G. Scott.