Cassius Dio's forgotten history of early Rome : the Roman history, Books 1-21
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Cassius Dio's forgotten history of early Rome : the Roman history, Books 1-21
（Historiography of Rome and its empire / series editors, Carsten Hjort Lange, Jesper Majbom Madsen, v. 3）
Brill, c2019
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Texts in English, French, and Italian
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
In a radical change of approach, Cassius Dio's Forgotten History of Early Rome illuminates the least explored and understood part of Cassius Dio's enormous Roman History: the first two decads, which span over half a millennium of history and constitute a quarter of Dio's work. Combining literary and historiographical perspectives with source-criticism and textual analysis for the first time in the study of Dio's early books, this collection of chapters demonstrates the integral place of 'early Rome' within the text as a whole and Dio's distinctive approach to this semi-mythical period. By focussing on these hitherto neglected portions of the text, this volume seeks to further the ongoing reappraisal of one of Rome's most significant but traditionally under-appreciated historians.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
The Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series
Carsten Hjort Lange & Jesper Majbom Madsen
Introduction
Christopher Burden-Strevens
Part 1
The Text
1 La fiabilite de Zonaras dans les deux premieres decades de l'Histoire Romaine de Cassius Dion: le cas des discours
Valerie Fromentin
2 Cassio Dione e le fonti pre- liviane: una versione alternativa dei primi secoli di Roma
Gianpaolo Urso
3 The Regal Period in the Excerpta Constantiniana and in Some Early Byzantine Extracts from Dio's Roman History
C.T. Mallan
Part 2
Military & Political History
4 From Nobles to Villains: The Story of the Republican Senate in Cassius Dio's Roman History
Jesper Majbom Madsen
5 The 'Great Men' of the Middle Republic in Cassius Dio's Roman History
Marianne Coudry
6 Cassius Dio on Violence, Stasis, and Civil War: The Early Years
Carsten Hjort Lange
7 Breaking the Idealistic Paradigm: Competition in Dio's Earlier Republic
Mads Lindholmer
Part 3
Early Rome & Dio's Project
8 Speech in Cassius Dio's Roman History, Books 1-35
John Rich
9 Cultural Interactions and Identities in Cassius Dio's Early Books
Brandon Jones
10 Defining the Good Ruler: Early Kings as Proto-Imperial Figures in Cassius Dio
Verena Schulz
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"