Cassius Dio : Greek intellectual and Roman politician

Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Leiden : Boston :. Brill, [2016]
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (xii, 364 pages).
Schriftenreihe: Historiography of Rome and its empire volume 1
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Imperium Romanum
Inhalte/Bestandteile: 1 Datensätze
Online Zugang: Online available
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Between history and politics / Carsten Hjort Lange and Jesper Majbom Madsen
  • Part 1. Cassius Dio and the transformation from republic to empire
  • Cassius Dio's Sulla : exemplum of cruelty and Republican dictator / Gianpaolo Urso
  • Cassius Dio on Pompey's extraordinary commands / Marianne Coudry
  • The sources of cassius Dio for the Roman civil wars of 49-30 BC / Richard Westall
  • Cassius Dio and the foreigners / Soren Lund Sorensen
  • Mock the triumph : Cassius Dio, triumph and triumph-like celebrations / Carsten Hjort Lange
  • Part 2. Imperial history in Cassius Dio
  • Cassius Dio and the city of Rome / Alain M. Gowing
  • Criticising the benefactors : the Severans and the return of dynastic rule / Jesper Majbom Madsen
  • Dio the dissident : the portrait of Severus in the Roman history / Jussi Rantala
  • Cassius Dio's secret history of Elagabalus / Josiah Osgood
  • Part 3. Rhetoric and speeches in Cassius Dio
  • Fictitious speeches, envy, and the habituation to authority : writing the collapse of the Roman Republic / Christopher Burden-Strevens
  • Speeches in Dio Cassius / Andriy Fomin
  • Dio, Caesar and the Vesontio mutineers (38.34-47) : a rhetoric of lies / Adam Kemezis
  • Parrhesia in Cassius Dio / Christopher Mallan
  • Historiography and panegyric : the deconstruction of imperial representation in Cassius Dio's Roman history / Verena Schulz
  • Cassius Dio : Pepaideumenos and politician on kingship / Brandon Jones
  • Alexander the Great in Cassius Dio / Jesper Carlsen.