{"product_id":"the-intellectual-climate-of-cassius-dio-greek-and-roman-pasts-9789004510487","title":"The Intellectual Climate of Cassius Dio: Greek and Roman Pasts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCassius Dio (c. 160–c. 230) is a familiar name to Roman historians, but still an enigmatic one. His text has shaped our understanding of his own period and earlier eras, but basic questions remain about his Greek and Roman cultural identities and his literary and intellectual influences. Contributors to this volume read Dio against different backgrounds including the politics of the Severan court, the cultural milieu of the Second Sophistic and Roman traditions of historiography and political theory. Dio emerges as not just a recounter of events, but a representative of his times in all their complexity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  List of Figures and Tables  Notes on Contributors  Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series   Carsten H. Lange and Jesper M. Madsen    Introduction: Conversations with the Author   Adam Kemezis, Colin Bailey and Beatrice Poletti    part 1: Political Theory and Commentary  1 Dio and Pompey: Explaining the Failure of the Republic   David S. Potter    2 “Safety First”: Cassius Dio on the Augustan Senate   Jonathan Scott Perry    3 Cassius Dio and the Ideal Constitution   Jasper Majbom Madsen    4 Monarchy as “True Democracy” in Cassius Dio and the Second Sophistic Authors: Irony, Utopia, or Ideal?   Konstantin V. Markov    5 Antoninum habemus, omnia habemus: The nomen Antoninorum Issue between the Historia Augusta and Cassius Dio   Antonio Pistellato    part 2: Rome and the Imperial Court  6 Contested Constructions: Cassius Dio and the Framing of Female Participation as Builders   Karin S. Tate    7 Dio and the Dowager Empresses, Part 2: Julia Domna, the Senate, and Succession   Julie Langford    8 Cassius Dio and the Imperial Admission   Mads Ortving Lindholmer    9 Cassius Dio and the Imitatio Alexandri   Frances Pownall    10 Cassius Dio, Julia Maesa and the Omens Foretelling the Rise of Elagabalus and Severus Alexander   Riccardo Bertolazzi    11 Imperial Fortunes: Portents, Prodigies and Dio’s Astrology  of the State   Selina Stewart    part 3: Literary Heritage  12 The Novel World of Cassius Dio   Brandon Jones    13 Telling Tales of Macrinus: Strategies of Fiction in Dio’s Contemporary History   Joel Allen    14 Dio and the Failed Politician Cicero   Robert Porod    15 Cameo Roles: Dio’s Portrayal of Earlier Senatorial Historians   Adam M. Kemezis    part 4: Hellenic Culture  16 Bilingualism and Authority in Cassius Dio   Sulochana Asirvatham    17 Cassius Dio’s Asia Minor: Biography and Historiography   Christina T. Kuhn    18 Dio, Severus, and the Ludi Saeculares of 204 ce   Jeremy Rossiter and Bethany Brothers    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210840039767,"sku":"9789004510487","price":139.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-intellectual-climate-of-cassius-dio-greek-and-roman-pasts-9789004510487","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}