Cassius Dio's forgotten history of early Rome : : the "Roman history", Books 1-21 / / edited by Christopher Burden-Strevens and Mads Lindholmer.

• TeilnehmendeR: Burden-Strevens, Christopher,; Lindholmer, Mads,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English; French; Italian
• Series: Historiography of Rome and Its Empire 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 338 pages).
• Other title: Introduction /; The Text --; La fiabilité de Zonaras dans les deux premières décades de l’Histoire romaine de Cassius Dion : le cas des discours /; Cassio Dione e le fonti pre-liviane : una versione alternativa dei primi secoli di Roma /; The Regal Period in the Excerpta Constantiniana and in Some Early Byzantine Extracts From Dio’s Roman History /; Military and Political History --; From Nobles to Villains: The Story of the Republican Senate in Cassius Dio’s Roman History /; The “Great Men” of the Middle Republic in Cassius Dio’s Roman History /; Cassius Dio on Violence, Stasis, and Civil War: The Early Years /; Breaking the Idealistic Paradigm: Competition in Dio’s Earlier Republic /; Early Rome and Dio’s Project --; Speech in Cassius Dio’s Roman History, Books 1–35 /; Cultural Interactions and Identities in Cassius Dio’s Early Books /; Defining the Good Ruler: Early Kings as Proto-Imperial Figures in Cassius Dio /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9004384553
• ISSN: 2468-2314
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Christopher Burden-Strevens and Mads Lindholmer.

In a radical change of approach, Cassius Dio’s Forgotten History of Early Rome illuminates the least explored and understood part of Cassius Dio’s enormous Roman History : the first two decads, which span over half a millennium of history and constitute a quarter of Dio’s work. Combining literary and historiographical perspectives with source-criticism and textual analysis for the first time in the study of Dio’s early books, this collection of chapters demonstrates the integral place of ‘early Rome’ within the text as a whole and Dio’s distinctive approach to this semi-mythical period. By focussing on these hitherto neglected portions of the text, this volume seeks to further the ongoing reappraisal of one of Rome’s most significant but traditionally under-appreciated historians.