Cassius Dio's forgotten history of early Rome : : the "Roman history", Books 1-21 / / 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 an...

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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).
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Christopher Burden-Strevens
  • The Text
  • La fiabilité de Zonaras dans les deux premières décades de l’Histoire romaine de Cassius Dion : le cas des discours / Valérie Fromentin
  • Cassio Dione e le fonti pre-liviane : una versione alternativa dei primi secoli di Roma / Gianpaolo Urso
  • The Regal Period in the Excerpta Constantiniana and in Some Early Byzantine Extracts From Dio’s Roman History / C.T. Mallan
  • Military and Political History
  • From Nobles to Villains: The Story of the Republican Senate in Cassius Dio’s Roman History / Jesper Majbom Madsen
  • The “Great Men” of the Middle Republic in Cassius Dio’s Roman History / Marianne Coudry
  • Cassius Dio on Violence, Stasis, and Civil War: The Early Years / Carsten Hjort Lange
  • Breaking the Idealistic Paradigm: Competition in Dio’s Earlier Republic / Mads Lindholmer
  • Early Rome and Dio’s Project
  • Speech in Cassius Dio’s Roman History, Books 1–35 / John Rich
  • Cultural Interactions and Identities in Cassius Dio’s Early Books / Brandon Jones
  • Defining the Good Ruler: Early Kings as Proto-Imperial Figures in Cassius Dio / Verena Schulz.