Cassius Dio : Greek intellectual and Roman politician
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Leiden : Boston :.
Brill,
[2016]
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| Umfang/Format: |
1 online resource (xii, 364 pages). |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Historiography of Rome and its empire
volume 1 |
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| 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.
