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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.

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Author:   Jesper Majbom Madsen ,  Andrew G. Scott
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Weight:   1.019kg
ISBN:  

9789004524170

ISBN 10:   9004524177
Pages:   14
Publication Date:   09 March 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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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Jesper Majbom Madsen, Professor, University of Southern Denmark, is co-editor of Brill’s Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series. He is the author of Eager to be Roman: Greek Response to Roman Rule in Pontus and Bithynia (2009) and is the co-editor of Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing: Double Vision (2014). Apart from the co-edited volume Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician (2016) he has published extensively on Cassius Dio including “Cassius Dio and the Cult of Iulius and Roma at Ephesus and Nicaea (51.20.6–8)” (Classical Quarterly 66/1 [2016]) and Cassius Dio (2020). His latest book From Trophy Towns to City-States; Urban Civilization and Cultural Identities in Roman Pontus (2020) was recently published. Andrew G. Scott in an Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Villanova University (Villanova, PA, USA). He is the author of Emperors and Usurpers: an historical commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman history, books 79 (78)-80 (80) (217-229 CE) (OUP 2018) and co-editor (with Carsten H. Lange) of Cassius Dio: The Impact of Violence, War, and Civil War (Brill 2020). He has also written numerous articles and book chapters on the histories of Cassius Dio and Herodian, as well as on various aspects of Spartan social history. Contributors are: Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen, Sulochana R. Asirvatham, Luke Pitcher, Caillan Davenport, Christopher T. Mallan, Josiah Osgood, Adam M. Kemezis, Christopher Baron, Estelle Bertrand, Jesper Majbom Madsen, Eleanor Cowan, Antonio Pistellato, Andrew G. Scott, Marianne Coudry, Christopher Burden-Strevens, Roger Rees, Caitlin C. Gillespie, Carsten H. Lange

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