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The Intellectual Climate of Cassius Dio
Greek and Roman Pasts
Series: - Historiography of Rome and Its Empire, Volume: 14
Cassius Dio (c. 160–c. 230) is a familiar name to Roman historians, but still an enigmatic one. His text has shaped our understanding of his own period and earlier eras, but basic questions remain about his Greek and Roman cultural identities and his literary and intellectual influences. Contributors to this volume read Dio against different backgrounds including the politics of the Severan court, the cultural milieu of the Second Sophistic and Roman traditions of historiography and political theory. Dio emerges as not just a recounter of events, but a representative of his times in all their complexity.
Adam Kemezis, Ph.D. (2006) is Associate Professor in the Department of History, Classics and Religion at the University of Alberta. He is the author of
Greek Narratives of the Roman Empire under the Severans: Cassius Dio, Philostratus and Herodian (Cambridge, 2014) and a number of articles on Dio and other authors and topics in Imperial Roman historiography and literature.
Colin Bailey, Ph.D. (2006) is Associate Professor of Classics at MacEwan University. He has published papers on Dio Chrysostom, Plutarch of Chaeronea, and Roman Republican history. His research interests focus on early imperial Greek literature and interactions between Greece and Rome.
Beatrice Poletti, Ph.D. (2018) is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Classics at Queen’s University. She has written several papers on Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan historiography and religion. Her interests include historiography of Rome, Augustan literature, and Roman religion.
Colin Bailey, Ph.D. (2006) is Associate Professor of Classics at MacEwan University. He has published papers on Dio Chrysostom, Plutarch of Chaeronea, and Roman Republican history. His research interests focus on early imperial Greek literature and interactions between Greece and Rome.
Beatrice Poletti, Ph.D. (2018) is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Classics at Queen’s University. She has written several papers on Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan historiography and religion. Her interests include historiography of Rome, Augustan literature, and Roman religion.
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series
Carsten H. Lange and Jesper M. Madsen
Introduction: Conversations with the Author
Adam Kemezis, Colin Bailey and Beatrice Poletti
1 Dio and Pompey: Explaining the Failure of the Republic
David S. Potter
2 “Safety First”: Cassius Dio on the Augustan Senate
Jonathan Scott Perry
3 Cassius Dio and the Ideal Constitution
Jasper Majbom Madsen
4 Monarchy as “True Democracy” in Cassius Dio and the Second Sophistic Authors: Irony, Utopia, or Ideal?
Konstantin V. Markov
5 Antoninum habemus, omnia habemus: The nomen Antoninorum Issue between the Historia Augusta and Cassius Dio
Antonio Pistellato
6 Contested Constructions: Cassius Dio and the Framing of Female Participation as Builders
Karin S. Tate
7 Dio and the Dowager Empresses, Part 2: Julia Domna, the Senate, and Succession
Julie Langford
8 Cassius Dio and the Imperial Admission
Mads Ortving Lindholmer
9 Cassius Dio and the Imitatio Alexandri
Frances Pownall
10 Cassius Dio, Julia Maesa and the Omens Foretelling the Rise of Elagabalus and Severus Alexander
Riccardo Bertolazzi
11 Imperial Fortunes: Portents, Prodigies and Dio’s Astrology of the State
Selina Stewart
12 The Novel World of Cassius Dio
Brandon Jones
13 Telling Tales of Macrinus: Strategies of Fiction in Dio’s Contemporary History
Joel Allen
14 Dio and the Failed Politician Cicero
Robert Porod
15 Cameo Roles: Dio’s Portrayal of Earlier Senatorial Historians
Adam M. Kemezis
16 Bilingualism and Authority in Cassius Dio
Sulochana Asirvatham
17 Cassius Dio’s Asia Minor: Biography and Historiography
Christina T. Kuhn
18 Dio, Severus, and the Ludi Saeculares of 204 ce
Jeremy Rossiter and Bethany Brothers
Index
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series
Carsten H. Lange and Jesper M. Madsen
Introduction: Conversations with the Author
Adam Kemezis, Colin Bailey and Beatrice Poletti
part 1: Political Theory and Commentary
1 Dio and Pompey: Explaining the Failure of the Republic
David S. Potter
2 “Safety First”: Cassius Dio on the Augustan Senate
Jonathan Scott Perry
3 Cassius Dio and the Ideal Constitution
Jasper Majbom Madsen
4 Monarchy as “True Democracy” in Cassius Dio and the Second Sophistic Authors: Irony, Utopia, or Ideal?
Konstantin V. Markov
5 Antoninum habemus, omnia habemus: The nomen Antoninorum Issue between the Historia Augusta and Cassius Dio
Antonio Pistellato
part 2: Rome and the Imperial Court
6 Contested Constructions: Cassius Dio and the Framing of Female Participation as Builders
Karin S. Tate
7 Dio and the Dowager Empresses, Part 2: Julia Domna, the Senate, and Succession
Julie Langford
8 Cassius Dio and the Imperial Admission
Mads Ortving Lindholmer
9 Cassius Dio and the Imitatio Alexandri
Frances Pownall
10 Cassius Dio, Julia Maesa and the Omens Foretelling the Rise of Elagabalus and Severus Alexander
Riccardo Bertolazzi
11 Imperial Fortunes: Portents, Prodigies and Dio’s Astrology of the State
Selina Stewart
part 3: Literary Heritage
12 The Novel World of Cassius Dio
Brandon Jones
13 Telling Tales of Macrinus: Strategies of Fiction in Dio’s Contemporary History
Joel Allen
14 Dio and the Failed Politician Cicero
Robert Porod
15 Cameo Roles: Dio’s Portrayal of Earlier Senatorial Historians
Adam M. Kemezis
part 4: Hellenic Culture
16 Bilingualism and Authority in Cassius Dio
Sulochana Asirvatham
17 Cassius Dio’s Asia Minor: Biography and Historiography
Christina T. Kuhn
18 Dio, Severus, and the Ludi Saeculares of 204 ce
Jeremy Rossiter and Bethany Brothers
Index
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