Cassius Dio and the Late Roman Republic / edited by Josiah Osgood, Christopher Baron.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Osgood, Josiah, 1974- editor.

Baron, Christopher A., 1973- editor.

Series:

Historiography of Rome and Its Empire; volume4.

Historiography of Rome and Its Empire; volume4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C--Historiography.

Rome.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus. Roman history.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Summary:

Cassius Dio’s Roman History is an essential, yet still undervalued, source for modern historians of the late Roman Republic. The papers in this volume show how his account can be used to gain new perspectives on such topics as the memory of the conspirator Catiline, debates over leadership in Rome, and the nature of alliance formation in civil war. Contributors also establish Dio as fully in command of his narrative, shaping it to suit his own interests as a senator, a political theorist, and, above all, a historian. Sophisticated use of chronology, manipulation of annalistic form, and engagement with Thucydides are just some of the ways Dio engages with the rich tradition of Greco-Roman historiography to advance his own interpretations.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series / Carsten H. Lange and Jesper M. Madsen

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Cassius Dio and the Late Roman Republic / Josiah Osgood and Christopher Baron

Narrative Themes and Texture

Imperialism and the Crisis of the Roman Republic: Dio’s View on Late Republican Conquests (Books 36–40) / Estelle Bertrand

Electoral Bribery and the Challenge to the Authority of the Senate: Two Aspects of Dio’s View of the Late Roman Republic (Books 36–40) / Marianne Coudry

Wrinkles in Time: Chronological Ruptures in Cassius Dio’s Narrative of the Late Republic / Christopher Baron

Dio the Deviant: Comparing Dio’s Late Republic and the Parallel Sources / Mads Ortving Lindholmer

Cassius Dio and the Virtuous Roman / Kathryn Welch

Characters, Institutions, and Episodes

The Republican Dictatorship: an Imperial Perspective / Christopher Burden-Strevens

Spectacle Entertainments in the Late Republican Books of Cassius Dio’s Roman History / Jesper Carlsen

Cassius Dio’s Catiline: “A Name Greater Than His Deeds Deserved” / Gianpaolo Urso

Dio and the Voice of the Sibyl / Josiah Osgood

Civil War and the Victory of Augustus

Responding to Civil War: M. Claudius Marcellus Aeserninus and M. Caelius Rufus in Cassius Dio, Book 42 / Andrew G. Scott

Cassius Dio on Sextus Pompeius and Late Republican Civil War / Carsten Hjort Lange

Like Father Like Son: the Differences in How Dio Tells the Story of Julius Caesar and His More Successful Son / Jesper Majbom Madsen

Towards the Conceptualization of Cassius Dio’s Narration of the Early Career of Octavian / Konstantin V. Markov

Back Matter

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-40515-1

OCLC:

1096239587

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004405158 DOI