Cassius Dio's Speeches and the Collapse of the Roman Republic

The Roman History, Books 3-56
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-37360-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Historiography of Rome and Its Empire

In Cassius Dio’s Speeches and the Collapse of the Roman Republic, Christopher Burden-Strevens provides a radical reinterpretation of the importance of public speech in one of our most significant historical sources for the bloody and dramatic transition from Republic to Principate. Cassius Dio’s Roman History, composed in eighty books early in the 3rd century CE, has only recently come to be appreciated as a sophisticated work of history-writing. In this book, Burden-Strevens demonstrates the central role played by speeches in Dio’s original analysis of the decline of the Republic and the success of the emperor Augustus’ regime, including a detailed study of their possible sources, themes, methods of composition, and their distinctiveness within the traditions of Roman historiography.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burden-Strevens, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series

Acknowledgements

Table of Speeches

1 Introduction

1 From One King to Another

2 Speechwriting and the Historian

3 Cassius Dio and the Decline of the Republic

4 The Historian and his World

5 Using This Book

2 Method

1 The Composition of Dio’s Speeches: Three Problems

2 Three Problems, or Three Strengths?

3 Oratory

1 Beginnings: Early Roman Oratory

2 Decline: Dynasty and Deception

3 Restoration: Augustus and the Principate

4 Morality

1 Envy and Odium

2 Selfish Ambition, or Love of Honour?

3 Covetousness and Cupidity

4 Moral Revolution, or Constitutional Change?

5 Institutions & Empire

1 Successive Office-Holding and the High Command

2 The Dictatorship and Tyranny

3 Tradition and Innovation

6 Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Burden-Strevens (Ph.D. 2015, University of Glasgow) is Lecturer in Roman History at The University of Kent. He has published and edited numerous studies on Roman historiography, including most recently Cassius Dio’s Forgotten History of Early Rome (Brill, 2019).