Cassius Dio and the Principate

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dc.identifier	ECF_book_459
dc.creator	Burden-Strevens Christopher
dc.creator	Madsen Jesper Majbom
dc.creator	Pistellato Antonio
dc.title	Cassius Dio and the Principate
dc.type	Edited book
dc.language.iso	it, en
dc.description.abstract	In the Imperial books of his Roman History, Cassius Dio focuses on individual emperors and imperial institutions to promote a political framework for the ideal monarchy, and to theorise autocracy’s typical problems and their solutions. The distinctive narrative structure of Dio’s work creates a unique sense of the past and allows us to see Roman history through a specific lens: that of a man who witnessed the Principate from the Antonines to the Severans. When Dio was writing, the Principate was a full-fledged historical fact, having experienced more than two hundred years of history, good and bad emperors, and three major civil wars. This collection of seven essays sets out to address these issues, and to see Dio not as an ‘adherent’ to or ‘advocate’ of monarchy, but rather as a theorist of its development and execution.
dc.relation.ispartof	Lexis Supplements
dc.relation.ispartof	Lexis Studies in Greek and Latin Literature
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-472-1
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-12-21
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dc.identifier.issn	2210-8866
dc.identifier.eissn	2724-3362
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-473-8
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-472-1
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Ancient Rome
dc.subject	Ancient Rome
dc.subject	Ancient Rome
dc.subject	Augustus
dc.subject	Augustus
dc.subject	Augustus
dc.subject	Augustus
dc.subject	Augustus
dc.subject	Caesar
dc.subject	Caesar
dc.subject	Caesar
dc.subject	Caligula and Claudius
dc.subject	Caligula and Claudius
dc.subject	Caligula and Claudius
dc.subject	Caracalla
dc.subject	Caracalla
dc.subject	Caracalla
dc.subject	Cassius Dio
dc.subject	Cassius Dio
dc.subject	Cassius Dio
dc.subject	Cassius Dio
dc.subject	Cassius Dio
dc.subject	Cassius Dio
dc.subject	Cassius Dio
dc.subject	Cassius Dio
dc.subject	Cassius Dio
dc.subject	Cassius Dio
dc.subject	Cassius Dio
dc.subject	Cassius Dio’s contemporary history
dc.subject	Cassius Dio’s contemporary history
dc.subject	Cassius Dio’s contemporary history
dc.subject	Cicero
dc.subject	Cicero
dc.subject	Cicero
dc.subject	Civilitas Principis
dc.subject	Civilitas Principis
dc.subject	Civilitas Principis
dc.subject	Commodus and Pertinax
dc.subject	Commodus and Pertinax
dc.subject	Commodus and Pertinax
dc.subject	Consilium
dc.subject	Consilium
dc.subject	Consilium
dc.subject	Contemporary historiography
dc.subject	Contemporary historiography
dc.subject	Contemporary historiography
dc.subject	Domitian
dc.subject	Domitian
dc.subject	Domitian
dc.subject	Dynastic succession
dc.subject	Dynastic succession
dc.subject	Dynastic succession
dc.subject	Elagabalus
dc.subject	Elagabalus
dc.subject	Elagabalus
dc.subject	Emperor-Senate relationships
dc.subject	Emperor-Senate relationships
dc.subject	Emperor-Senate relationships
dc.subject	Ideal Government
dc.subject	Ideal Government
dc.subject	Ideal Government
dc.subject	Ideal emperor
dc.subject	Ideal emperor
dc.subject	Ideal emperor
dc.subject	Imperator
dc.subject	Imperator
dc.subject	Imperator
dc.subject	Imperial Historiography
dc.subject	Imperial Historiography
dc.subject	Imperial Historiography
dc.subject	Iron age
dc.subject	Iron age
dc.subject	Iron age
dc.subject	Macrinus
dc.subject	Macrinus
dc.subject	Macrinus
dc.subject	Mixed Constitution Theory
dc.subject	Mixed Constitution Theory
dc.subject	Mixed Constitution Theory
dc.subject	Monarchy
dc.subject	Monarchy
dc.subject	Monarchy
dc.subject	Pertinax
dc.subject	Pertinax
dc.subject	Pertinax
dc.subject	Political structure
dc.subject	Political structure
dc.subject	Political structure
dc.subject	Principate
dc.subject	Principate
dc.subject	Principate
dc.subject	Roman History
dc.subject	Roman History
dc.subject	Roman History
dc.subject	Senate
dc.subject	Senate
dc.subject	Senate
dc.subject	Septimius Severus
dc.subject	Septimius Severus
dc.subject	Septimius Severus
dc.subject	Severan dynasty
dc.subject	Severan dynasty
dc.subject	Severan dynasty
dc.subject	Stoicism
dc.subject	Stoicism
dc.subject	Stoicism
dc.subject	Stoicism
dc.subject	Stoicism
dc.subject	The Flavian dynasty
dc.subject	The Flavian dynasty
dc.subject	The Flavian dynasty
dc.subject	Titus
dc.subject	Titus
dc.subject	Titus
dc.subject	Vespasian
dc.subject	Vespasian
dc.subject	Vespasian
dc.subject	Virtue
dc.subject	Virtue
dc.subject	Virtue

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Cassius Dio and the Principate

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Christopher Burden-Strevens University of Kent, UK

Jesper Majbom Madsen Syddansk Universitet, Danmark

Antonio Pistellato Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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abstract

In the Imperial books of his Roman History, Cassius Dio focuses on individual emperors and imperial institutions to promote a political framework for the ideal monarchy, and to theorise autocracy’s typical problems and their solutions. The distinctive narrative structure of Dio’s work creates a unique sense of the past and allows us to see Roman history through a specific lens: that of a man who witnessed the Principate from the Antonines to the Severans. When Dio was writing, the Principate was a full-fledged historical fact, having experienced more than two hundred years of history, good and bad emperors, and three major civil wars. This collection of seven essays sets out to address these issues, and to see Dio not as an ‘adherent’ to or ‘advocate’ of monarchy, but rather as a theorist of its development and execution.

Published

Dec. 21, 2020

Language

IT, EN

ISBN (PRINT)

978-88-6969-473-8

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-88-6969-472-1

Number of pages

188

Dimensions

16x23 cm

Keywords

Caesar • Virtue • Caligula and Claudius • Domitian • Iron age • Ancient Rome • Augustus • Civilitas Principis • Mixed Constitution Theory • Political structure • Caracalla • Commodus and Pertinax • Septimius Severus • Imperial Historiography • Dynastic succession • Principate • Senate • Cassius Dio • The Flavian dynasty • Monarchy • Pertinax • Roman History • Vespasian • Cassius Dio’s contemporary history • Cicero • Severan dynasty • Ideal emperor • Contemporary historiography • Elagabalus • Ideal Government • Stoicism • Emperor-Senate relationships • Titus • Imperator • Consilium • Macrinus

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