Brill’s Companion to Cassius Dio

538 Pages·2022·3.521 MB·English

by  Jesper Majbom Madsen, Andrew G. Scott

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Brill’s Companion to Cassius Dio
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JesperMajbomMadsen
AndrewG.Scott
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Contents
NotesonContributors ix
Introduction:ReviewingCassiusDio 1
JesperMajbomMadsenandAndrewG.Scott
part 1
CassiusDio,GreekIntellectualandRomanPolitician
1 CassiusDio’sBithynianBackground 21
TønnesBekker-Nielsen
2 CassiusDio’sGreekandRomanIdentity 48
SulochanaR.Asirvatham
3 CassiusDioandGreco-RomanHistoriography 69
LukePitcher
4 TheSenator’sStory 88
CaillanDavenport
part 2
TextandReception
5 FromDeconstructiontoReconstruction:CassiusDio’sRomanHistoryin
WesternEurope,1421–1750 109
ChristopherT.Mallan
6 CassiusDioinGibbon 132
JosiahOsgood
7 ASurveyofRecentScholarshiponCassiusDio 154
AdamM.Kemezis
vi contents
part 3
ChronologicalSurveys
8 TheLostBooksofCassiusDio’sRomanHistory(1–35) 201
ChristopherBaron
9 CassiusDioandtheLastDecad(e)softheRomanRepublic:
UnderstandingtheCollapseoftheRepublicanRegime(Books
21–50) 223
EstelleBertrand
10 TheAlmostFlawlessPrinceps:CassiusDio’sIdealizedPortraitof
Octavian/Augustus 246
JesperMajbomMadsen
11 CassiusDioandtheJulio-Claudians:FearandLoathingintheEarly
Principate 276
EleanorCowan
12 CassiusDioandtheEmperors:FromtheFlavianstothe
Antonines 302
AntonioPistellato
13 CassiusDioandtheAgeofIronandRust 324
AndrewG.Scott
part 4
KeyThemes
14 TheRepublicanSpeeches 351
MarianneCoudry
15 TheAgrippa-MaecenasDebate 371
ChristopherBurden-Strevens
16 “ToBuryCaesar”:ThePoeticsandPolemicsofFuneraryOratoryin
CassiusDio 406
RogerRees
contents vii
17 Women,Politics,andMoralityinCassiusDio’sRomanHistory 427
CaitlinC.Gillespie
18 CassiusDioonCivilWar:BetweenHistoryandTheory 453
CarstenH.Lange
IndexLocorum 479
GeneralIndex 500

Notes on Contributors
SulochanaAsirvatham
isProfessorofClassicsandGeneralHumanitiesatMontclairStateUniversity.
HermainresearchinterestsincludethereceptionofAlexandertheGreatand
theMacedoniansinimperialGreekliteratureandintheAlexander-Romance
tradition,GreekandRomanidentity,andancienthistoryandhistoriography.
She is the co-editor of Between Magic and Religion: Interdisciplinary Stud-
ies in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and Society (2001) and The Courts of
PhilipIIandAlexandertheGreat:MonarchyandPowerinAncientMacedonia
(2022).
ChristopherBaron
is an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Notre Dame (South
Bend,IN,USA).HespecializesinGreekandRomanhistoriographyandGreek
history,especiallyintheHellenisticandImperialages.Hispublicationsinclude
Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic Historiography (Cambridge, 2013);
CassiusDioandtheLateRomanRepublic,co-editedwithJosiahOsgood(Brill,
2019); The Herodotus Encyclopedia (Wiley, 2021); and numerous articles and
chapters.HisnextbookwillinvestigatetheGreekhistoriansundertheRoman
Empire, including their place in the Greek historiographical tradition, their
attitudetoRomanpower,andtheirrelationshipwiththeSecondSophistic.
TønnesBekker-Nielsen
wasborninCopenhagenin1955andstudiedhistoryandarthistoryattheUni-
versityofAarhus,graduatingin1981,earninghisPh.D.in1987andthehigher
degree in 2003. From 1985 to 2000 he was CEO of Aarhus University Press
andfrom1992to1997servedaspresidentof theInternationalAssociationof
Scholarly Publishers. He left publishing in 2000 to take up a position at the
UniversityofSouthernDenmark,wherehetaughtancienthistoryandepigra-
phyuntilhisretirementin2022anddirectedtheresearchproject“WhereEast
meetsWest:Urbanisation,provincialisationandculturalinteractioninRoman
Anatolia”(2012–2015).Hehaswrittenoreditedanumberof booksincluding
TheGeographyof Power (Oxford1988),TheRoadsof AncientCyprus(Copen-
hagen2003),UrbanLifeandLocalPoliticsinRomanBithynia:TheSmallWorld
of DionChrysostomos(Aarhus2008)andTheInlandSeas:TowardsanEcohis-
tory of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea (Stuttgart 2016). Currently he is
writingamonographonthehistoryof ancientNeoklaudiopolis(present-day
VezirköprüinnorthernTurkey).
x notes on contributors
ChristopherBurden-Strevens
(Ph.D. 2015, University of Glasgow) is Lecturer in Roman History at the Uni-
versityofKent.HehaspublishedextensivelyonCassiusDio,includinga2020
monograph (Cassius Dio’s Speeches and the Collapse of the Roman Republic,
Brill: Leiden & Boston), two edited volumes (most recently Cassius Dio and
thePrincipate,EdizioniCa’Foscari:Venice2021,withJesperMadsen&Anto-
nioPistellato),andnumerousshorterstudies.Moregenerallyheisinterestedin
allaspectsofthepoliticsoftheLateRepublic,especiallyrhetoricandpolitical
leadership,onwhichhehasjustpublishedathirdcollectivework(Leadership
andPoliticalInitiativeinLateRepublican&EarlyImperialRome,Brill:Leiden&
Boston2022,withDr.RomanFrolov).Heiscurrentlyworkingonanewproject
onthereceptionandmemoryoftheRomanRepublicintheFrenchEnlighten-
mentandRevolution.
MarianneCoudry
(Emeritus Professor of Roman History, Université de Haute-Alsace, FR) is a
specialistof theRomanSenateof theMid-andLateRepublic,andmoregen-
erally of the political culture and society of the Roman Republic. Her thesis
about decision-making in the Republican Senate was re-edited in 2020, and
a collection of papers written between 1982 and 2019, and updated, Senatus.
Treizeétudes,waspublishedin2021(Steiner,Stuttgart).Shehaswrittenonsev-
eralRomanlawsfortheLEPORdatabase(http://www.cn‑telma.fr/lepor/)and
isalsoengagedinGreekandRomanhistoriography,mostlywithCassiusDio.
Sheistheauthor,withGuyLachenaud,oftheedition-translation-commentary
of Cassius Dio’s Roman History, books 36–37 and books 38-39-40 in the Col-
lection des Universités de France, Paris (2014 and 2011), and she gave sev-
eralcontributionsinacollectivevolumeissuedinBordeauxin2016:Cassius
Dion:Nouvelleslectures,V.Fromentinetal.(eds).Sheparticipatedinthreeof
Brill’scollectionof volumesaboutCassiusDio:CassiusDio,GreekIntellectual
andRomanPolitician,2016;CassiusDio’sForgottenHistoryof EarlyRome.The
RomanHistory,Books1–21,2019,andCassiusDioandtheLateRomanRepublic,
2019.
EleanorCowan
isanancienthistorianintheDepartmentof ClassicsandAncientHistoryat
theUniversityofSydney.Herresearchconcentratesoncommunitiesinconflict
andpost-conflict,onthehistoryof ideas,theintersectionof lawandpolitics
andonClassicalhistoriography.ShehaspublishedwidelyontheLateRoman
Republic and Early Imperial Rome. Recent publications include “Contesting
Clementia.TherhetoricofseveritasinTiberianRomebeforeandafterthetrial