TY - BOOK ID - 85726092 TI - Cassius Dio's speeches and the collapse of the Roman Republic : the Roman history, books 3-56 PY - 2020 SN - 9004431365 9004373608 9789004373600 PB - Leiden: Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek KW - Rhetoric, Ancient. KW - Ancient rhetoric KW - Classical languages KW - Greek language KW - Greek rhetoric KW - Latin language KW - Latin rhetoric KW - History and criticism. KW - Rhetoric KW - Cassius Dio Cocceianus. KW - Rome KW - Rim KW - Roman Empire KW - Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) KW - Romi (Empire) KW - Byzantine Empire KW - Rome (Italy) KW - History KW - Historiography. KW - Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek - History and criticism KW - Rhetoric, Ancient KW - Cassius Dio Cocceianus. - Roman history KW - Rome - History - Historiography UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85726092 AB - "In Cassius Dio's Speeches and the Collapse of the Roman Republic, Christopher Burden-Strevens provides a radical reinterpretation of the importance of public speech in one of our most significant historical sources for the bloody and dramatic transition from Republic to Principate. Cassius Dio's Roman History, composed in eighty books early in the 3rd century CE, has only recently come to be appreciated as a sophisticated work of history-writing. In this book, Burden-Strevens demonstrates the central role played by speeches in Dio's original analysis of the decline of the Republic and the success of the emperor Augustus' regime, including a detailed study of their possible sources, themes, methods of composition, and their distinctiveness within the traditions of Roman historiography."-- ER -