Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-32416-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Latin, Band 1, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

Reihe: Historiography of Rome and Its Empire

Winner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award

Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician, a collection of essays on this historian, is the first to appear in the new Brill series Historiography of Rome and Its Empire. The volume brings together case studies that highlight various aspects of Dio’s Roman History, focusing on previously ignored or misunderstood aspects of his narrative. The main purpose of the volume is to pursue a combined historiographic, literary and rhetorical analysis of Dio’s work and of its political and intellectual agendas. Dio's work is often used as a handy resource, with scholars looking at isolated sections of his annalistic structure. Contrary to this approach, the volume puts emphasis on Cassius Dio and his Roman History in its historiographical setting, thus allowing us to link and understand the different parts of his work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Madsen, Jesper Majbom

Lange, Carsten Hjort

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Über Autor(innen)

Carsten Hjort Lange, Ph.D. (2008), University of Nottingham, is Assistant Professor at Aalborg University, and co-editor of Brill's Historiography of Rome and Its Empire series. He is the author of two monographs: Res Publica Constituta: Actium, Apollo and the Accomplishment of the Triumviral Assignment (Brill, 2009) and Triumphs in the Age of Civil War: The Late Republic and the Adaptability of Triumphal Tradition (Bloomsbury, 2016).

Jesper Majbom Madsen, Ph.D. (2006), Aarhus University, is Associate Professor and Director of Teaching at the University of Southern Denmark, and 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 (Duckworth, 2009) and is the co-editor of Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing: Double Vision (Brill, 2014).

Contributors are: Christopher Burden-Strevens, Jesper Carlsen, Marianne Coudry, Andriy Fomin, Alain Gowing, Brandon Jones, Adam Kemezis, Carsten Hjort Lange, Jesper Majbom Madsen, Christopher Mallan, Josiah Osgood, Jussi Rantala, Verena Schulz, Søren Lund Sørensen, Gianpaolo Urso and Richard Westall.