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Author:   Christopher Burden-Strevens
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   7
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9789004373600

ISBN 10:   9004373608
Pages:   340
Publication Date:   04 June 2020
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

Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series Acknowledgements Table of Speeches 1 Introduction  1 From One King to Another  2 Speechwriting and the Historian  3 Cassius Dio and the Decline of the Republic  4 The Historian and his World  5 Using This Book 2 Method  1 The Composition of Dio’s Speeches: Three Problems  2 Three Problems, or Three Strengths? 3 Oratory  1 Beginnings: Early Roman Oratory  2 Decline: Dynasty and Deception  3 Restoration: Augustus and the Principate 4 Morality  1 Envy and Odium  2 Selfish Ambition, or Love of Honour?  3 Covetousness and Cupidity  4 Moral Revolution, or Constitutional Change? 5 Institutions & Empire  1 Successive Office-Holding and the High Command  2 The Dictatorship and Tyranny  3 Tradition and Innovation 6 Epilogue Bibliography Index

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""Speeches are part of the historical narrative; they can add information which the author may not be inclined to share in his own voice; and they can reveal more of the author’s evaluation of his characters and the historical events he is narrating. Therefore, it behoves us to grant the speeches particular thought and analysis. This is the main objective which this book intends to achieve and it does so successfully."" - Ayelet Peer, Bar-Ilan University, in Histos 15 (2021). ""Burden-Strevens has written an indispensable study of Cassius Dio’s Roman History, which should be read carefully by any scholar of Dio, and, I would say, anyone investigating the Greek historiography of the Empire writ large."" Leanne Jansen, BMCR 2021.12.22

"""Speeches are part of the historical narrative; they can add information which the author may not be inclined to share in his own voice; and they can reveal more of the author’s evaluation of his characters and the historical events he is narrating. Therefore, it behoves us to grant the speeches particular thought and analysis. This is the main objective which this book intends to achieve and it does so successfully."" - Ayelet Peer, Bar-Ilan University, in Histos 15 (2021). ""Burden-Strevens has written an indispensable study of Cassius Dio’s Roman History, which should be read carefully by any scholar of Dio, and, I would say, anyone investigating the Greek historiography of the Empire writ large."" Leanne Jansen, BMCR 2021.12.22"

Speeches are part of the historical narrative; they can add information which the author may not be inclined to share in his own voice; and they can reveal more of the author's evaluation of his characters and the historical events he is narrating. Therefore, it behoves us to grant the speeches particular thought and analysis. This is the main objective which this book intends to achieve and it does so successfully. - Ayelet Peer, Bar-Ilan University, in Histos 15 (2021).

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Christopher Burden-Strevens (Ph.D. 2015, University of Glasgow) is Lecturer in Roman History at The University of Kent. He has published and edited numerous studies on Roman historiography, including most recently Cassius Dio’s Forgotten History of Early Rome (Brill, 2019).

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