Cassius Dio the Historian

Methods and Approaches
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46148-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 798 g

Reihe: Historiography of Rome and Its Empire

This volume focuses on Cassius Dio as a historian – the only historian who allows us to follow the developments of Rome’s political institutions during a more than thousand year period, from the foundation of the city to Cassius Dio’s retirement from public life in 229 CE. The volume explores the Roman historian’s methodology and agendas, all of which influenced his approaches to Rome’s history. It offers a reassessment that rests on a deeper study of his relationship with historiographical traditions as well as his narrative and structural approach to Roman history. It examines Cassius Dio as both a writer in the historiographic tradition with his own agenda for writing The Roman History and a historian with his own ambition to tell the history of Rome.

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series

Carsten H. Lange and Jesper M. Madsen

Introduction: Cassius Dio, Politician and Historian

Jesper M. Madsen and Carsten H. Lange

1 Cassius Dio Scholarship in the 20th & 21st Centuries

Valérie Fromentin

Part 1: Methodology

2 Exploiting Conventions: Cassius Dio’s Late Republic and the Annalistic Tradition

Mads O. Lindholmer

3 The Dog That Did Not Bark? Cassius Dio and Herodotus

Christopher Baron

4 Cassius Dio’s Periodization of Roman History and His Methodological Agendas

Konstantin V. Markov

5 The Revolt of the Pannonian Legions and the Working Method of Cassius Dio

Josip Parat

6 Cassius Dio the Orator: Approaches to Rhetoric in the Roman History, Books 1–53

Christopher Burden-Strevens

Part 2: Writing Contemporary History

7 Avoiding the Eastern Question: Avidius Cassius and the Antonine Succession in Cassius Dio

Adam M. Kemezis

8 Historiographic Method and Self-Presentation in Cassius Dio’s Contemporary History

Andrew G. Scott

9 Between Eyewitness Reports and the Writing of History: Cassius Dio’s Potential as an Historian

Jesper M. Madsen

10 The Severan Sejanus? Parallels between Plautianus and Sejanus in Cassius Dio

Alex Imrie

11 Wizards and Sorcerers: Cassius Dio on Caracalla and Cicero

Graham Andrews

part 3: Approaches to Politics and War

12 From Caution to Elitism: Cassius Dio’s Approach to Foreign Policy

Eric Adler

13 Cassius Dio on Perusia: A Study in Human Nature During Civil War

Carsten H. Lange

14 Nero’s Gloomy Triumph: Cassius Dio and Senatorial Identity

Antonio Pistellato

15 Cassius Dio’s Roman Economic History

Jesper Carlsen

16 Teuta and Feminine Exemplarity in Cassius Dio’s Roman History

Brandon Jones

17 Cassius Dio and the Dowager Empresses, Part 1: Livia, the Senate, and the Succession Struggle

Julie Langford

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jesper Majbom Madsen (PhD Aarhus University, 2006) is Associate Professor at University of Southern Denmark and co-editor of Brill’s Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series. He is the author of Cassius Dio (Bloomsbury, 2020) and From Trophy Towns to City-States: Urban Civilization and Cultural Identities in Roman Pontus (Penn, 2020).

Carsten Hjort Lange (PhD University of Nottingham, 2008) is Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark and co-editor of Brill’s Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series. Publications include 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).

Contributors are: Valérie Fromentin, Mads O. Lindholmer, Christopher Baron, Konstantin V. Markov, Josip Parat, Christopher Burden-Strevens, Adam M. Kemezis, Andrew G. Scott, Jesper M. Madsen, Alex Imrie, Graham Andrews, Eric Adler, Carsten H. Lange, Antonio Pistellato, Jesper Carlsen, Brandon Jones, Julie Langford.