Brill's companion to Cassius Dio / / edited by Jesper Majbom Madsen, Andrew G. Scott.

• Superior document: Brill's companions to classical studies
• TeilnehmendeR: Scott, Andrew G.,; Madsen, Jesper Majbom,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2023.; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's companions to classical studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 524 pages) :; illustration.

"This Companion is the first of its kind on the Roman historian Cassius Dio. It introduces the reader to the life and work of one of the most fundamental but previously neglected historians in the Roman historical canon. Together the eighteen chapters focus on Cassius Dio's background as Graeco-Roman intellectual from Bithynia who worked his way up the political hierarchy in Rome and analyses his Roman History as the product of a politically engaged historian who carefully ties Rome's constitutional situation together with the city's history"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Notes on Contributors -- ‎Introduction. Reviewing Cassius Dio (Madsen and Scott) -- ‎Part 1. Cassius Dio, Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician -- ‎Chapter 1. Cassius Dio's Bithynian Background (Bekker-Nielsen) -- ‎Chapter 2. Cassius Dio's Greek and Roman Identity (Asirvatham) -- ‎Chapter 3. Cassius Dio and Greco-Roman Historiography (Pitcher) -- ‎Chapter 4. The Senator's Story (Davenport) -- ‎Part 2. Text and Reception -- ‎Chapter 5. From Deconstruction to Reconstruction: Cassius Dio's Roman History in Western Europe, 1421-1750 (Mallan) -- ‎Chapter 6. Cassius Dio in Gibbon (Osgood) -- ‎Chapter 7. A Survey of Recent Scholarship on Cassius Dio (Kemezis) -- ‎Part 3. Chronological Surveys -- ‎Chapter 8. The Lost Books of Cassius Dio's Roman History (1-35) (Baron) -- ‎Chapter 9. Cassius Dio and the Last Decad(e)s of the Roman Republic: Understanding the Collapse of the Republican Regime (Books 21-50) (Bertrand) -- ‎Chapter 10. The Almost Flawless Princeps: Cassius Dio's Idealized Portrait of Octavian/Augustus (Madsen) -- ‎Chapter 11. Cassius Dio and the Julio-Claudians: Fear and Loathing in the Early Principate (Cowan) -- ‎Chapter 12. Cassius Dio and the Emperors: From the Flavians to the Antonines (Pistellato) -- ‎Chapter 13. Cassius Dio and the Age of Iron and Rust (Scott) -- ‎Part 4. Key Themes -- ‎Chapter 14. The Republican Speeches (Coudry) -- ‎Chapter 15. The Agrippa-Maecenas Debate (Burden-Strevens) -- ‎Chapter 16. "To Bury Caesar": The Poetics and Polemics of Funerary Oratory in Cassius Dio (Rees) -- ‎Chapter 17. Women, Politics, and Morality in Cassius Dio's Roman History (Gillespie) -- ‎Chapter 18. Cassius Dio on Civil War: Between History and Theory (Lange) -- ‎Index Locorum -- ‎General Index.