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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jesper Majbom Madsen , Andrew G. ScottPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Weight: 1.019kg ISBN: 9789004524170ISBN 10: 9004524177 Pages: 14 Publication Date: 09 March 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsNotes 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 IndexReviewsAuthor InformationJesper Majbom Madsen, Professor, University of Southern Denmark, is co-editor of Brill’s Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series. He is the author of Eager to be Roman: Greek Response to Roman Rule in Pontus and Bithynia (2009) and is the co-editor of Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing: Double Vision (2014). Apart from the co-edited volume Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician (2016) he has published extensively on Cassius Dio including “Cassius Dio and the Cult of Iulius and Roma at Ephesus and Nicaea (51.20.6–8)” (Classical Quarterly 66/1 [2016]) and Cassius Dio (2020). His latest book From Trophy Towns to City-States; Urban Civilization and Cultural Identities in Roman Pontus (2020) was recently published. Andrew G. Scott in an Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Villanova University (Villanova, PA, USA). He is the author of Emperors and Usurpers: an historical commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman history, books 79 (78)-80 (80) (217-229 CE) (OUP 2018) and co-editor (with Carsten H. Lange) of Cassius Dio: The Impact of Violence, War, and Civil War (Brill 2020). He has also written numerous articles and book chapters on the histories of Cassius Dio and Herodian, as well as on various aspects of Spartan social history. Contributors are: Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen, Sulochana R. Asirvatham, Luke Pitcher, Caillan Davenport, Christopher T. Mallan, Josiah Osgood, Adam M. Kemezis, Christopher Baron, Estelle Bertrand, Jesper Majbom Madsen, Eleanor Cowan, Antonio Pistellato, Andrew G. Scott, Marianne Coudry, Christopher Burden-Strevens, Roger Rees, Caitlin C. Gillespie, Carsten H. Lange Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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