Cassius Dio the Historian : Methods and Approaches.

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series -- Cassius Dio, Politician and Historian -- Chapter 1 Cassius Dio Scholarship in the 20th &amp -- 21st Centuries -- Part 1 Methodology -- Chapter 2 Exploiting Conventions: Cassius Dio's Late Republic and the Annalistic Tradition -- Chapter 3 The Dog That Did Not Bark? Cassius Dio and Herodotus -- Chapter 4 Cassius Dio's Periodization of Roman History and His Methodological Agendas -- Chapter 5 The Revolt of the Pannonian Legions and the Working Method of Cassius Dio -- Chapter 6 Cassius Dio the Orator: Approaching Speeches in the Roman History, Books 1-53 -- Part 2 Writing Contemporary History -- Chapter 7 Avoiding the Eastern Question: Avidius Cassius and the Antonine Succession in Cassius Dio -- Chapter 8 Historiographic Method and Self-Presentation in Cassius Dio's Contemporary History -- Chapter 9 Between Eyewitness Reports and the Writing of History: Cassius Dio's Potential as an Historian -- Chapter 10 The Severan Sejanus? Parallels between Plautianus and Sejanus in Cassius Dio -- Chapter 11 Wizards and Sorcerers: Cassius Dio on Caracalla and Cicero -- Part 3 Approaches to Politics and War -- Chapter 12 From Caution to Elitism: Cassius Dio's Approach to Foreign Policy -- Chapter 13 Cassius Dio on Perusia: A Study in Human Nature During Civil War -- Chapter 14 Nero's Gloomy Triumph: Cassius Dio and Senatorial Identity -- Chapter 15 Cassius Dio's Roman Economic History -- Chapter 16 Teuta and Feminine Exemplarity in Cassius Dio's Roman History -- Chapter 17 Cassius Dio and the Dowager Empresses, Part 1: Livia, the Senate, and the Succession Struggle -- Index.

The volume Cassius Dio the Historian: Methods and Approaches explores the Roman historian's methodology and agendas. He had his own agendas for writing his Roman History, but at the same time, he was a historian with an ambition to tell the history of Rome.

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