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Cassius Dio's forgotten history of early Rome : the "Roman history", Books 1-21 / edited by Christopher Burden-Strevens and Mads Lindholmer.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Historiography of Rome and Its Empire 3.
- Historiography of Rome and its empire, 2468-2314 ; volume 3
- Language:
- English
- French
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Historiography--Rome.
- Historiography.
- Rome--History--Historiography.
- Rome.
- Cassius Dio Cocceianus. Roman history--Book 1-21.
- Cassius Dio Cocceianus.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 338 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Brill, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English, French and Italian.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Christopher Burden-Strevens
- The Text
- La fiabilité de Zonaras dans les deux premières décades de l’Histoire romaine de Cassius Dion : le cas des discours / Valérie Fromentin
- Cassio Dione e le fonti pre-liviane : una versione alternativa dei primi secoli di Roma / Gianpaolo Urso
- The Regal Period in the Excerpta Constantiniana and in Some Early Byzantine Extracts From Dio’s Roman History / C.T. Mallan
- Military and Political History
- From Nobles to Villains: The Story of the Republican Senate in Cassius Dio’s Roman History / Jesper Majbom Madsen
- The “Great Men” of the Middle Republic in Cassius Dio’s Roman History / Marianne Coudry
- Cassius Dio on Violence, Stasis, and Civil War: The Early Years / Carsten Hjort Lange
- Breaking the Idealistic Paradigm: Competition in Dio’s Earlier Republic / Mads Lindholmer
- Early Rome and Dio’s Project
- Speech in Cassius Dio’s Roman History, Books 1–35 / John Rich
- Cultural Interactions and Identities in Cassius Dio’s Early Books / Brandon Jones
- Defining the Good Ruler: Early Kings as Proto-Imperial Figures in Cassius Dio / Verena Schulz.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-38455-3
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004384552 DOI
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