Cassius dio : : greek intellectual and roman politician.

• TeilnehmendeR: Lange, Carsten Hjort,; Madsen, Jesper Majbom,
• Place / Publishing House: [S.l.] : : Brill,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Historiography of Rome and Its Empire 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 pages) :; illustrations.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Between History and Politics /; Cassius Dio’s Sulla: Exemplum of Cruelty and Republican Dictator /; Cassius Dio on Pompey’s Extraordinary Commands /; The Sources of Cassius Dio for the Roman Civil Wars of 49–30 bc /; Cassius Dio and the Foreigners /; Mock the Triumph: Cassius Dio, Triumph and Triumph-Like Celebrations /; Cassius Dio and the City of Rome /; Criticising the Benefactors: The Severans and the Return of Dynastic Rule /; Dio the Dissident: The Portrait of Severus in the Roman History /; Cassius Dio’s Secret History of Elagabalus /; Fictitious Speeches, Envy, and the Habituation to Authority: Writing the Collapse of the Roman Republic /; Speeches in Dio Cassius /; Dio, Caesar and the Vesontio Mutineers (38.34–47): A Rhetoric of Lies /; Parrhêsia in Cassius Dio /; Historiography and Panegyric: The Deconstruction of Imperial Representation in Cassius Dio’s Roman History /; Cassius Dio – Pepaideumenos and Politician on Kingship /; Alexander the Great in Cassius Dio /; Bibliography --; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004335315
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

Winner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician , a collection of essays on this historian, is the first to appear in the new Brill series Historiography of Rome and Its Empire . The volume brings together case studies that highlight various aspects of Dio’s Roman History , focusing on previously ignored or misunderstood aspects of his narrative. The main purpose of the volume is to pursue a combined historiographic, literary and rhetorical analysis of Dio’s work and of its political and intellectual agendas. Dio's work is often used as a handy resource, with scholars looking at isolated sections of his annalistic structure. Contrary to this approach, the volume puts emphasis on Cassius Dio and his Roman History in its historiographical setting, thus allowing us to link and understand the different parts of his work.