{"product_id":"brill-s-companion-to-cassius-dio-9789004524170","title":"Brill’s Companion to Cassius Dio","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210852557143,"sku":"9789004524170","price":151.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/brill-s-companion-to-cassius-dio-9789004524170","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}