Brill's companion to Cassius Dio

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Brill's companion to Cassius Dio

edited by Jesper Majbom Madsen, Andrew G. Scott

(Brill's companions in classical studies)

Brill, c2023

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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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 cannon. Together the eighteen chapters focus on Cassius Dio’s background as a Graeco-Roman intellectual from Bithynia who worked his way up the political hierarchy in Rome and analyzes his Roman History as the product of a politically engaged historian who carefully ties Rome’s constitutional situation together with the city’s history.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors Introduction: Reviewing Cassius Dio  Jesper Majbom Madsen and Andrew G. Scott Part 1 Cassius Dio, Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician 1 Cassius Dio’s Bithynian Background  Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen 2 Cassius Dio’s Greek and Roman Identity  Sulochana R. Asirvatham 3 Cassius Dio and Greco-Roman Historiography  Luke Pitcher 4 The Senator’s Story  Caillan Davenport Part 2 Text and Reception 5 From Deconstruction to Reconstruction: Cassius Dio’s Roman History in Western Europe, 1421–1750  Christopher T. Mallan 6 Cassius Dio in Gibbon  Josiah Osgood 7 A Survey of Recent Scholarship on Cassius Dio  Adam M. Kemezis Part 3 Chronological Surveys 8 The Lost Books of Cassius Dio’s Roman History (1–35)  Christopher Baron 9 Cassius Dio and the Last Decad(e)s of the Roman Republic: Understanding the Collapse of the Republican Regime (Books 21–50)  Estelle Bertrand 10 The Almost Flawless Princeps: Cassius Dio’s Idealized Portrait of Octavian-Augustus  Jesper Majbom Madsen 11 Cassius Dio and the Julio-Claudians: Fear and Loathing in the Early Principate  Eleanor Cowan 12 Cassius Dio and the Emperors: From the Flavians to the Antonines  Antonio Pistellato 13 Cassius Dio and the Age of Iron and Rust  Andrew G. Scott Part 4 Key Themes 14 The Republican Speeches  Marianne Coudry 15 The Agrippa-Maecenas Debate  Christopher Burden-Strevens 16 “To Bury Caesar”: The Poetics and Polemics of Funerary Oratory in Cassius Dio  Roger Rees 17 Women, Politics, and Morality in Cassius Dio’s Roman History  Caitlin C. Gillespie 18 Cassius Dio on Civil War: Between History and Theory  Carsten H. Lange Index

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