Emperors and Political Culture in Cassius Dio's Roman History /
The Roman History of Cassius Dio provides one of the most important continuous narratives of the early Roman empire, spanning the inception of the Principate under Augustus to the turbulent years of the Severan Dynasty. It has been a major influence on how scholars have thought about Roman imperial...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2021
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Emperors and Political Culture in Cassius Dio's Roman History |
Obsah:
- Introduction: Cassius Dio: The Senator and his Caesars
- I, Imperial and political narratives
- 1, Vox populi, vox mea? Information, evaluation and public opinion in Dio's account of the principate
- 2, News, rumour, and the political culture of the roman imperial monarchy in the Roman History
- 3, Literary and documentary sources in Dio's narrative of the roman emperors
- 4, "Now comes the greatest marvel of all!" (79(78).8.2): Dio's roman emperors and the incredible
- II, Emperors and biographies
- 5, Cassius Dio's funeral speech for Augustus: sources, rhetoric, messages
- 6, "... But he possessed a most singular nature": Cassius Dio on Tiberius
- 7, An Emperor's war on Greece: Cassius Dio's Nero
- 8, War and peace: imperial leadership in Dio's second-century narrative
- III, Political groups and political culture
- 9, "The people" and Cassius Dio
- 10, Citizenship, enfranchisement and honour in Cassius Dio
- 11, The company they keep: Emperors and their associates
- 12, Dio and his friends: Autobiography and biography in Cassius Dio's contemporary narrative
- IV, Reception and reflection
- 13, The reception of Cassius Dio's imperial narrative in Byzantium (tenth-twelth centuries)
- Epilogue: And now...?