Cassius Dio and the Late Roman Republic.

Intro -- Contents -- Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Cassius Dio and the Late Roman Republic -- Part 1 Narrative Themes and Texture -- Chapter 2 Imperialism and the Crisis of the Roman Republic: Dio's View on Late Republican Conquests (Books 36-40) -- Chapter 3 Electoral Bribery and the Challenge to the Authority of the Senate: Two Aspects of Dio's View of the Late Roman Republic (Books 36-40) -- Chapter 4 Wrinkles in Time: Chronological Ruptures in Cassius Dio's Narrative of the Late Republic -- Chapter 5 Dio the Deviant: Comparing Dio's Late Republic and the Parallel Sources -- Chapter 6 Cassius Dio and the Virtuous Roman -- Part 2 Characters, Institutions, and Episodes -- Chapter 7 The Republican Dictatorship: an Imperia lPerspective -- Chapter 8 Spectacle Entertainments in the Late Republican Books of Cassius Dio's Roman History -- Chapter 9 Cassius Dio's Catiline: "A Name Greater Than His Deeds Deserved" -- Chapter 10 Dio and the Voice of the Sibyl -- Part 3 Civil War and the Victory of Augustus -- Chapter 11 Responding to Civil War: M. Claudius Marcellus Aeserninus and M. Caelius Rufus in Cassius Dio, Book 42 -- Chapter 12 Cassius Dio on Sextus Pompeius and Late Republican Civil War -- Chapter 13 Like Father Like Son: the Differences in How Dio Tells the Story of Julius Caesar and His More Successful Son -- Chapter 14 Towards the Conceptualization of Cassius Dio's Narration of the Early Career of Octavian -- Index.

Cassius Dio and the Late Roman Republic offers new understandings of Dio's late republican narrative both as a well-informed historical source and a skillful narrative informed by the rich tradition of Greco-Roman history writing.

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