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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction: Reviewing Cassius Dio Jesper Majbom Madsen and Andrew G. Scott Part 1 Cassius Dio, Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician 1 Cassius Dio’s Bithynian Background Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen 2 Cassius Dio’s Greek and Roman Identity Sulochana R. Asirvatham 3 Cassius Dio and Greco-Roman Historiography Luke Pitcher 4 The Senator’s Story Caillan Davenport Part 2 Text and Reception 5 From Deconstruction to Reconstruction: Cassius Dio’s Roman History in Western Europe, 1421–1750 Christopher T. Mallan 6 Cassius Dio in Gibbon Josiah Osgood 7 A Survey of Recent Scholarship on Cassius Dio Adam M. Kemezis Part 3 Chronological Surveys 8 The Lost Books of Cassius Dio’s Roman History (1–35) Christopher Baron 9 Cassius Dio and the Last Decad(e)s of the Roman Republic: Understanding the Collapse of the Republican Regime (Books 21–50) Estelle Bertrand 10 The Almost Flawless Princeps: Cassius Dio’s Idealized Portrait of Octavian-Augustus Jesper Majbom Madsen 11 Cassius Dio and the Julio-Claudians: Fear and Loathing in the Early Principate Eleanor Cowan 12 Cassius Dio and the Emperors: From the Flavians to the Antonines Antonio Pistellato 13 Cassius Dio and the Age of Iron and Rust Andrew G. Scott Part 4 Key Themes 14 The Republican Speeches Marianne Coudry 15 The Agrippa-Maecenas Debate Christopher Burden-Strevens 16 “To Bury Caesar”: The Poetics and Polemics of Funerary Oratory in Cassius Dio Roger Rees 17 Women, Politics, and Morality in Cassius Dio’s Roman History Caitlin C. Gillespie 18 Cassius Dio on Civil War: Between History and Theory Carsten H. Lange Index
