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1 online resource (524 p.) |
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Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Ser |
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Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction Conversations with the Author -- Part 1 Political Theory and Commentary -- Chapter 1 Dio and Pompey: Explaining the Failure of the Republic -- Chapter 2 "Safety First": Cassius Dio on the Augustan Senate -- Chapter 3 Cassius Dio and the Ideal Constitution -- Chapter 4 Monarchy as "True Democracy" in Cassius Dio and the Second Sophistic Authors: Irony, Utopia, or Ideal? |
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Chapter 5 Antoninum habemus, omnia habemus: The nomen Antoninorum Issue between the Historia Augusta and Cassius Dio -- Part 2 Rome and the Imperial Court -- Chapter 6 Contested Constructions: Cassius Dio and the Framing of Female Participation as Builders -- Chapter 7 Dio and the Dowager Empresses, Part 2: Julia Domna, the Senate, and Succession -- Chapter 8 Cassius Dio and the Ritual of the Imperial Admission -- Chapter 9 Cassius Dio and the Imitatio Alexandri -- Chapter 10 Cassius Dio, Julia Maesa and the Omens Foretelling the Rise of Elagabalus and Severus Alexander |
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Chapter 11 Imperial Fortunes: Portents, Prodigies and Dio's Astrology of the State -- Part 3 Literary Heritage -- Chapter 12 The Novel World of Cassius Dio -- Chapter 13 Telling Tales of Macrinus: Strategies of Fiction in Dio's Contemporary History -- Chapter 14 Dio and the Failed Politician Cicero -- Chapter 15 Cameo Roles: Dio's Portrayal of Earlier Senatorial Historians -- Part 4 Hellenic Culture -- Chapter 16 Bilingualism and Authority in Cassius Dio -- Chapter 17 Cassius Dio's Asia Minor: Biography and Historiography -- Chapter 18 Dio, Severus, and the Ludi Saeculares of 204 ce -- Index |
| Summary |
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 |
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Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Historians -- Rome -- Biography
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Greeks -- Rome -- Biography
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Politicians -- Rome -- Biography
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Greeks
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Historians
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Politicians
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bailey, Colin
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Poletti, Beatrice
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| ISBN |
9789004510517 |
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9004510516 |
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