Cassius Dio the Historian : Methods and Approaches
Cassius Dio the Historian : Methods and Approaches
by Jesper Majbom Madsen and Carsten Hjort Lange
English | 2021 | ISBN: 9004461485 | 479 Pages | True PDF | 3.5 MB
by Jesper Majbom Madsen and Carsten Hjort Lange
English | 2021 | ISBN: 9004461485 | 479 Pages | True PDF | 3.5 MB
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.
Jesper Majbom Madsen (PhD Aarhus University, 2006) is Associate Professor at University of Southern Denmark and co-editor of Brill's Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series. He is the author of Cassius Dio (Bloomsbury, 2020) and From Trophy Towns to City-States: Urban Civilization and Cultural Identities in Roman Pontus (Penn, 2020).
Carsten Hjort Lange (PhD University of Nottingham, 2008) is Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark and co-editor of Brill's Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series. Publications include two monographs, Res Publica Constituta: Actium, Apollo and the Accomplishment of the Triumviral Assignment (Brill, 2009) and Triumphs in the Age of Civil War: The Late Republic and the Adaptability of Triumphal Tradition (Bloomsbury, 2016).