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Author:   Christopher Burden-Strevens ,  Mads Lindholmer
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   3
Weight:   0.689kg
ISBN:  

9789004384378

ISBN 10:   9004384375
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   08 November 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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 fiabilité de Zonaras dans les deux premières décades de l’Histoire Romaine de Cassius Dion: le cas des discours Valérie 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

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While it is essential reading, and not merely for those who study Dio's early books, this volume also makes a strong case for how foundational these books are to anyone who works on Dio. Like a good Aristotelian plot, the Roman History's beginning, middle, and end compose a unity. Beyond the volume's content, which is excellently organized in its sequence of chapters, its front and end matter are equally splendid. The volume opens with brief and helpful introductions to the contributors and their scholarly profiles, and it concludes with a useful and well-organized index of names and key terms. Each chapter includes its own bibliography, rather than at the end of the volume. The physical book itself is contained within a glossy, durable hardcover fittingly graced by the reverse of a Republican-era coin depicting the founding twins suckled by the she-wolf. Jeremy J. Swist, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.07.40

""While it is essential reading, and not merely for those who study Dio’s early books, this volume also makes a strong case for how foundational these books are to anyone who works on Dio. Like a good Aristotelian plot, the Roman History’s beginning, middle, and end compose a unity. Beyond the volume’s content, which is excellently organized in its sequence of chapters, its front and end matter are equally splendid. The volume opens with brief and helpful introductions to the contributors and their scholarly profiles, and it concludes with a useful and well-organized index of names and key terms. Each chapter includes its own bibliography, rather than at the end of the volume. The physical book itself is contained within a glossy, durable hardcover fittingly graced by the reverse of a Republican-era coin depicting the founding twins suckled by the she-wolf. "" Jeremy J. Swist, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.07.40

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Christopher Burden-Strevens is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Kent. He is author of the forthcoming monograph, Cassius Dio’s Speeches & the Collapse of the Roman Republic, as well as numerous studies on the historiography of the Republic. Mads Ortving Lindholmer is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of St Andrews where he is engaged on a project on the imperial Roman salutatio. He has published numerous articles and book chapters, especially on Cassius Dio.

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