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.

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 va...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Between History and Politics / Carsten Hjort Lange and Jesper Majbom Madsen
• Cassius Dio’s Sulla: Exemplum of Cruelty and Republican Dictator / Gianpaolo Urso
• Cassius Dio on Pompey’s Extraordinary Commands / Marianne Coudry
• The Sources of Cassius Dio for the Roman Civil Wars of 49–30 bc / Richard Westall
• Cassius Dio and the Foreigners / Søren Lund Sørensen
• Mock the Triumph: Cassius Dio, Triumph and Triumph-Like Celebrations / Carsten Hjort Lange
• Cassius Dio and the City of Rome / Alain M. Gowing
• Criticising the Benefactors: The Severans and the Return of Dynastic Rule / Jesper Majbom Madsen
• Dio the Dissident: The Portrait of Severus in the Roman History / Jussi Rantala
• Cassius Dio’s Secret History of Elagabalus / Josiah Osgood
• Fictitious Speeches, Envy, and the Habituation to Authority: Writing the Collapse of the Roman Republic / Christopher Burden-Strevens
• Speeches in Dio Cassius / Andriy Fomin
• Dio, Caesar and the Vesontio Mutineers (38.34–47): A Rhetoric of Lies / Adam Kemezis
• Parrhêsia in Cassius Dio / Christopher Mallan
• Historiography and Panegyric: The Deconstruction of Imperial Representation in Cassius Dio’s Roman History / Verena Schulz
• Cassius Dio – Pepaideumenos and Politician on Kingship / Brandon Jones
• Alexander the Great in Cassius Dio / Jesper Carlsen
• Bibliography
• Index.