Cassius Dio's Forgotten History of Early Rome

The Roman History, Books 1-21
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38437-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Historiography of Rome and Its Empire

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burden-Strevens, Christopher

Lindholmer, Mads

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors
The Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series
Carsten Hjort Lange & Jesper Majbom Madsen
Introduction
Christopher Burden-Strevens
Part 1
The Text
1 La fiabilité de Zonaras dans les deux premières décades de l’Histoire Romaine de Cassius Dion: le cas des discours
Valérie Fromentin
2 Cassio Dione e le fonti pre- liviane: una versione alternativa dei primi secoli di Roma
Gianpaolo Urso
3 The Regal Period in the Excerpta Constantiniana and in Some Early Byzantine Extracts from Dio’s Roman History
C.T. Mallan
Part 2
Military & Political History
4 From Nobles to Villains: The Story of the Republican Senate in Cassius Dio’s Roman History
Jesper Majbom Madsen
5 The ‘Great Men’ of the Middle Republic in Cassius Dio’s Roman History
Marianne Coudry
6 Cassius Dio on Violence, Stasis, and Civil War: The Early Years
Carsten Hjort Lange
7 Breaking the Idealistic Paradigm: Competition in Dio’s Earlier Republic
Mads Lindholmer
Part 3
Early Rome & Dio’s Project
8 Speech in Cassius Dio’s Roman History, Books 1–35
John Rich
9 Cultural Interactions and Identities in Cassius Dio’s Early Books
Brandon Jones
10 Defining the Good Ruler: Early Kings as Proto-Imperial Figures in Cassius Dio
Verena Schulz
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Burden-Strevens is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Kent. He is author of the forthcoming monograph, Cassius Dio’s Speeches & the Collapse of the Roman Republic, as well as numerous studies on the historiography of the Republic.

Mads Ortving Lindholmer is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of St Andrews where he is engaged on a project on the imperial Roman salutatio. He has published numerous articles and book chapters, especially on Cassius Dio.