Cassius Dio

DOWNLOAD

Download Cassius Dio PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Cassius Dio book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page

Cassius Dio S Forgotten History Of Early Rome

DOWNLOAD
Author : Christopher Burden-Strevens
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-11-05

Cassius Dio S Forgotten History Of Early Rome written by Christopher Burden-Strevens and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-05 with History categories.

In a radical change of approach, Cassius Dio’s Forgotten History of Early Rome illuminates the least explored and understood part of Cassius Dio’s enormous Roman History: the first two decads, which span over half a millennium of history and constitute a quarter of Dio’s work. Combining literary and historiographical perspectives with source-criticism and textual analysis for the first time in the study of Dio’s early books, this collection of chapters demonstrates the integral place of ‘early Rome’ within the text as a whole and Dio’s distinctive approach to this semi-mythical period. By focussing on these hitherto neglected portions of the text, this volume seeks to further the ongoing reappraisal of one of Rome’s most significant but traditionally under-appreciated historians.

Emperors And Usurpers

DOWNLOAD
Author : Andrew G. Scott
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018

Emperors And Usurpers written by Andrew G. Scott and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with History categories.

This historical commentary examines books 79(78)-80(80) of Cassius Dio's Roman History, which cover the period from the death of Caracalla in A. D. 217. to the reign of Severus Alexander and Cassius Dio's retirement from political life in 229. Cassius Dio, a Roman Senator, provides a valuable eyewitness account of this turbulent period, which was marked by the assassination of Caracalla, the rise of Macrinus, Rome's first equestrian emperor, and his subsequent overthrow, the tempestuous, and by all accounts peculiar, reign of Elagabalus, and the continuation of the Severan dynasty under the young Severus Alexander. In addition to elucidating important passages from these books, this study assesses Cassius Dio's political life and its relationship to his literary career; his call to history and time of composition; his historical method; and his attitude toward and subsequent presentation of the later Severan dynasty. In its investigation of books 79(78)-80(80), the work assesses an important stretch of Dio's actual text, which for other parts has been preserved largely in epitome and excerpts. Finally, the work aims to fill a gap in scholarship, as no commentary on these books of Cassius Dio's history has been produced since the nineteenth century, and its publication coincides with a renewed interest in the history and historiography of the Severan period.

The Augustan Succession

DOWNLOAD
Author : Peter Michael Swan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2004-06-17

The Augustan Succession written by Peter Michael Swan and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-17 with History categories.

Written in the author's maternal Greek, the Roman History of the third-century A.D. historian Cassius Dio is our fullest surviving historical source for the reign of the Emperor Augustus. In The Augustan Succession Peter Michael Swan provides an ample historical and historiographic commentary on Books 55-56 of the History. These books recount Augustus's last twenty-three years (9 B.C.-A.D. 14), during which the aging monarch, amid dynastic tragedies and military setbacks, orchestrated the continuation of the constitutional and imperial system developed under his leadership, which ended in his transmission of power to his son-in-law Tiberius. The Augustan Succession is the first commentary since the eighteenth century to offer full and fresh treatment of this segment of Dio's work. This commentary pays close critical attention to Dio's historical sources, methods, and assumptions as it also strives to present him as a figure in his own right. During a long life (ca. 164-after 229), Dio served as a Roman senator under seven emperors from Commodus to Severus Alexander, governed three Roman provinces, and was twice consul. An acute and interested contemporary observer of wide experience, positioned close to the seat of imperial power, he was a self-assured personality who embodied deeply conservative political and social views and prejudices. All these factors inform the pages of Dio's Augustan narrative, as does, above all, his doctrine that the best remedy for the troubles of his own age of "rust and iron" was rule on the model of Augustus. This is an historical commentary on Books 55-56 of Dio's Roman History. These books recount the last half of the reign of the Emperor Augustus, above all his orchestration of the first imperial succession. Addressed to both students and scholars, the new commentary is the first since the eighteenth century to offer full and fresh treatment of this segment of Dio's work.

Deconstructing Imperial Representation Tacitus Cassius Dio And Suetonius On Nero And Domitian

DOWNLOAD
Author : Verena Schulz
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-06-24

Deconstructing Imperial Representation Tacitus Cassius Dio And Suetonius On Nero And Domitian written by Verena Schulz and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-24 with Literary Criticism categories.

What literary strategies do Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius apply in portraying Nero and Domitian? This book argues that the three authors respond to and deconstruct the positive accounts of imperial representation that were prevalent during the lifetimes of the two controversial emperors. They take up motifs from these earlier accounts, which they re-interpret to construct their own negative portraits. Although Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius discuss the same historical figures and events of early imperial Rome, they are rarely examined together in one volume. Verena Schulz offers the first combined reading of their works from a philological viewpoint, analysing the various rhetorical techniques and narratological devices that they display, and the different literary and historical discourses in which they are embedded.

Cassius Dio Roman History

DOWNLOAD
Author : Cassius
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020

Cassius Dio Roman History written by Cassius and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Rome categories.

"This volume provides a new translation of Books 57 and 58 of Cassius Dio's Roman History and the 'fragments' of these books preserved in later Byzantine epitomes, as well as the first English language commentary to examine them in their entirety. Dio's Roman History covers almost 1,000 years from the founding of Rome up to the early third century AD, with Books 57 and 58 focusing on the reign of the emperor Tiberius (AD 14-37): his account of this period is one of the most important to have survived from antiquity, not least as it preserves a historiographical tradition in some ways distinct from that of Tacitus and Suetonius. These books also reveal something of his authorial preoccupations and present a glimpse into the mind of the historian, and especially into his understanding of the mechanics of imperial government. The focus of the commentary is both historical and historiographical, in so far as it aims to illuminate not only issues arising from Dio's account of the Tiberian principate, but also to reveal the unity of his work and literary programme: a series of appendices complement the analysis by providing discussion of some of the key historical problems surrounding Dio and the reign of Tiberius. The translation (the first since the Loeb Classical Library edition of E. Cary) aims for both clarity and accuracy, and particular care has been taken to separate the various textual traditions that have been used to reconstruct the lost portions of Dio's text. An accompanying general Introduction offers an accessible overview of Cassius Dio's approach to history based on the latest research in the field, and will be of particular use to graduate and undergraduate students coming to the text for the first time"--

Cassius Dio S Speeches And The Collapse Of The Roman Republic

DOWNLOAD
Author : Christopher Burden-Strevens
language : en
Publisher: Historiography of Rome and Its
Release Date : 2020

Cassius Dio S Speeches And The Collapse Of The Roman Republic written by Christopher Burden-Strevens and has been published by Historiography of Rome and Its this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Literary Criticism categories.

Method -- Oratory -- Morality -- Institutions & Empire.

The Triumviral Narratives Of Appian And Cassius Dio

DOWNLOAD
Author : Alain M. Gowing
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992

The Triumviral Narratives Of Appian And Cassius Dio written by Alain M. Gowing and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.

A Study Of Cassius Dio

DOWNLOAD
Author : Fergus Millar
language : en
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendo P
Release Date : 1964

A Study Of Cassius Dio written by Fergus Millar and has been published by Oxford, Clarendo P this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Rome categories.

Cleopatra

DOWNLOAD
Author : Prudence Jones
language : en
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Release Date : 2006-03

Cleopatra written by Prudence Jones and has been published by Haus Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Accessible and affordable illustrated biography

Brill S Companion To Cassius Dio

DOWNLOAD
Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-02-27

Brill S Companion To Cassius Dio written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-27 with Literary Criticism categories.

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.