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Book SynopsisCassius Dio: The Impact of Violence, War, and Civil War is part of a renewed interest in the Roman historian Cassius Dio. This volume focuses on Dio’s approaches to foreign war and stasis as well as civil war. The impact of war on Rome as well as on the history of Rome has long be recognised by scholars, and adding to that, recent years have seen an increasing interest in the impact of civil war on Roman society. Dio’s views on violence, war, and civil war are an inter-related part of his overall project, which sought to understand Roman history on its own historical and historiographical terms and within a long-range view of the Roman past that investigated the realities of power.
Trade Review" As a group these collective volumes, and two further monographs, represent an important movement to better understand Dio as both an agent in and reporter of Rome's history. [...] Our knowledge of Roman history from the late Republic through the early third century CE is heavily dependent upon Cassius Dio. Hence the importance for all areas of Roman studies of volumes such as this one, which help us to a better understanding of how Dio's thinking shaped the way he constructed his narrative." David S. Potter, SEHEPUNKTE - Ausgabe 21 (2021), Nr. 4.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series Cassius Dio: Between War and Civil War Carsten Hjort Lange and Andrew G. Scott part 1: Violence 1 Violence as an Interpretive Category in Cassius Dio: The Terror under Sulla in 82 BCE Piotr Berdowski 2 Gossip of Violence and Violence of Gossip: Livia’s Lament and Its Remedy in Cassius Dio’s Severan Context Joel Allen part 2: War 3 Causation and Morality: Cassius Dio on the Origins of Rome’s External Wars under the Republic John Rich 4 Caesar’s Campaigns in Cassius Dio’s Late Republic Mads Ortving Lindholmer 5 Cassius Dio and the Roman Empire: the Impact of the Severan Wars on Dio’s Narrative Estelle Bertrand 6 “A Warlike Man” – Cassius Dio’s Perception and Interpretation of the Imperial Military persona Wolfgang Havener part 3: Civil War and the City of Rome 7 The War Comes Home: Rome and Romans during Civil Conflict in the Roman History Alex Imrie 8 Talking Heads: the Rostra as a Conspicuous Civil War Monument Carsten Hjort Lange Part 4: Civil War and the Senate 9 Cassius Dio, Cicero and the Complexity of Civil War Ayelet Peer 10 Cassius Dio on Senatorial Activities as a Factor of Political Instability and Civil War Konstantin V. Markov 11 Cassius Dio and Senatorial Memory of Civil War in the 190s Adam M. Kemezis Part 5: Civil War and the Severans 12 Cassius Dio, Ὁμόνοια, and Civil War Sulochana R. Asirvatham 13 “If You Do Wrong, You Will Be King!”: The Civil War Victor in Cassius Dio Josiah Osgood 14 Civil War and Governmental Change: From the Achievements of Augustus to the Failures of the Severans Andrew G. Scott Index
