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In a radical change of approach, Cassius Dio’s Forgotten History of Early Rome illuminates the least explored and understood part of Cassius Dio’s enormous Roman History: the first two decads, which span over half a millennium of history and constitute a quarter of Dio’s work. Combining literary and historiographical perspectives with source-criticism and textual analysis for the first time in the study of Dio’s early books, this collection of chapters demonstrates the integral place of ‘early Rome’ within the text as a whole and Dio’s distinctive approach to this semi-mythical period. By focussing on these hitherto neglected portions of the text, this volume seeks to further the ongoing reappraisal of one of Rome’s most significant but traditionally under-appreciated historians.
Price: $167.00
Pages: 338
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Historiography of Rome and Its Empire
Publication Date:
08 November 2018
ISBN: 9789004384378
Format: Hardcover
"While it is essential reading, and not merely for those who study Dio’s early books, this volume also makes a strong case for how foundational these books are to anyone who works on Dio. Like a good Aristotelian plot, the Roman History’s beginning, middle, and end compose a unity. Beyond the volume’s content, which is excellently organized in its sequence of chapters, its front and end matter are equally splendid. The volume opens with brief and helpful introductions to the contributors and their scholarly profiles, and it concludes with a useful and well-organized index of names and key terms. Each chapter includes its own bibliography, rather than at the end of the volume. The physical book itself is contained within a glossy, durable hardcover fittingly graced by the reverse of a Republican-era coin depicting the founding twins suckled by the she-wolf. " Jeremy J. Swist, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.07.40
Christopher Burden-Strevens is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Kent. He is author of the forthcoming monograph, Cassius Dio’s Speeches & the Collapse of the Roman Republic, as well as numerous studies on the historiography of the Republic.
Mads Ortving Lindholmer is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of St Andrews where he is engaged on a project on the imperial Roman salutatio. He has published numerous articles and book chapters, especially on Cassius Dio.