Dio cassius biography summary graphic organizers

  • Part of a complete English translation of Dio. Site contains many Greek and Latin texts, translations and related material.
  • The major theme of Dio's history is the change in Rome's governmental forms, especially the transition from Republic to Principate, or, in Dio's terms, from.
  • The article, continuing the overview of current Cassius Dio scholarship, focuses on the debates surrounding issues of narrative modes and patterns of his Roman.

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    Cassius Dio ,

    Table of contents :
    Cover page
    Halftitle page
    Series page
    Title page
    Copyright page
    Contents
    Preface
    Introduction
    Coming in from Bithynia
    Son of a senator
    Dio’s history of Rome
    Dio’s Rome
    1 In Search of the Ideal Form of Government
    The failings of the democratic system
    Monarchy prevails
    In search of the ideal monarch
    2 Roman Narratives
    Tyrants and kings
    A few good men
    Democracy fails
    Monarchy returns
    The ideal emperor
    3 Cassius Dio and His History of Rome
    Dio’s history of Rome
    The importance of Dio’s historical analysis
    Conclusion
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index

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    ANCIENTS IN ACTION Boudicca, Marguerite Johnson Callimachus, Richard Rawles Catiline, Barbara Levick Catullus, Amanda Hurley Cleopatra, Susan Walker and Sally-Ann Ashton Hadrian, James Morwood Hannibal, Robert Garland Homer, Jasper Griffin Horace, Philip D. Hills Lucretius, John Godwin Marius, Federico Santangelo Martial, Peter Howell Ovid: Love Songs, Genevie

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    Cassius Dio's Periodization of Roman History and His Methodological Agendas

    Chapter 4 Cassius Dio’s Periodization of Roman History and His Methodological Agendas Konstantin V. Markov For decades, Dio’s Roman History was held in low esteem by modern scholars, especially in terms of the historian’s methods and approaches.1 Several works of the late s and early s, including F. Millar’s monograph, shattered the conventional presumption that Dio was a single-source historian,2 but nevertheless continued to offer pessimistic conclusions on his historical acumen and methodology.3 The real breakthrough in scholarly attitudes to Dio has come with a number of works dedicated to Dio’s account of the Late Republic and the Principate of Augustus;4 these have contributed greatly to our understanding of the historian’s methodology.5 These studies have shown that the period of transition from Republic to Principate received a central place in Dio’s history; it was composed in more detail than

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    In this very useful work Edmondson translates and comments on the segments of Dio&#;s Roman History that fit the gaps left in the text of Tacitus&#;Annals after its precarious transit of the mittpunkt Ages. The chosen passages, of which the Greek text fryst vatten not provided, are from Books and 63 (Books 57 and are omitted entirely) and treat the conspiracy of Sejanus (A.D. ), the reign of Caligula (), the early years of Claudius (), and the fall of Nero (). The principle of bringing Dio in only where the tradition of Tacitus fails means that some notable texts are passed over, including those in Books where (uniquely) Dio&#;s original fryst vatten extant in parallel with Tacitus&#;Annals, offering important clues about the lost pre-Tacitean imperial historiography on which Dio drew.

    Edmondson&#;s book answers a palpable need. With the undantag of J.W. Humphrey&#;s historical commentary on Book 59 (University of British Columbia dissertation [], available on microfiche from the National Libr