The intellectual climate of Cassius Dio : : Greek and Roman pasts / / edited by Adam Kemezis, Colin Bailey, Beatrice Poletti.

• Superior document: Historiography of Rome and its empire ; Volume 14
• TeilnehmendeR: Kemezis, Adam M., 1977-; Bailey, Colin (Professor of Classics),; Poletti, Beatrice,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Historiography of Rome and its empire ; Volume 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (524 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series / Carsten H. Lange and Jesper M. Madsen -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction Conversations with the Author / Adam M. Kemezis , Colin Bailey , and Beatrice Poletti -- Chapter 1 Dio and Pompey: Explaining the Failure of the Republic / David S. Potter -- Chapter 2 "Safety First": Cassius Dio on the Augustan Senate / Jonathan Scott Perry -- Chapter 3 Cassius Dio and the Ideal Constitution / Jasper Majbom Madsen -- Chapter 4 Monarchy as "True Democracy" in Cassius Dio and the Second Sophistic Authors: Irony, Utopia, or Ideal? / Konstantin V. Markov -- Chapter 5 Antoninum habemus, omnia habemus : The nomen Antoninorum Issue between the Historia Augusta and Cassius Dio / Antonio Pistellato -- Chapter 6 Contested Constructions: Cassius Dio and the Framing of Female Participation as Builders / Karin S. Tate -- Chapter 7 Dio and the Dowager Empresses, Part 2: Julia Domna, the Senate, and Succession / Julie Langford -- Chapter 8 Cassius Dio and the Ritual of the Imperial Admission / Mads Ortving Lindholmer -- Chapter 9 Cassius Dio and the Imitatio Alexandri / Frances Pownall -- Chapter 10 Cassius Dio, Julia Maesa and the Omens Foretelling the Rise of Elagabalus and Severus Alexander / Riccardo Bertolazzi -- Chapter 11 Imperial Fortunes: Portents, Prodigies and Dio's Astrology of the State / Selina Stewart -- Chapter 12 The Novel World of Cassius Dio / Brandon Jones -- Chapter 13 Telling Tales of Macrinus: Strategies of Fiction in Dio's Contemporary History / Joel Allen -- Chapter 14 Dio and the Failed Politician Cicero / Robert Porod -- Chapter 15 Cameo Roles: Dio's Portrayal of Earlier Senatorial Historians / Adam M. Kemezis -- Chapter 16 Bilingualism and Authority in Cassius Dio / Sulochana Asirvatham -- Chapter 17 Cassius Dio's Asia Minor: Biography and Historiography / Christina T. Kuhn -- Chapter 18 Dio, Severus, and the Ludi Saeculares of 204 CE / Jeremy Rossiter and Bethany Brothers -- Index.