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Cassius Dio Cocceianus. --- Caesar, Julius.

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Cassius Dio Cocceianus. --- Rome --- Politics and government

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I frammenti dei libri XXI-XXX di Cassio Dione sono trasmessi per lo più dagli Excerpta Constantiniana, l’antologia della storiografi a antica in lingua greca realizzata nel X secolo per volontà dell’imperatore bizantino Costantino VII. Essi comprendono il periodo tra la terza guerra punica e la guerra sociale (149-89 a.C.) e forniscono numerose notizie altrimenti ignote, per la perdita delle fonti parallele (in particolare di Livio), o varianti signifi cative, perché Dione fa ampio ricorso a fonti pre-liviane. Ne emerge un quadro coerente, in cui la progressiva corruzione delle istituzioni tradizionali accompagna e determina il prevalere della taraché sul kósmos. Questo «rovesciamento dell’ordine» non si manifesta solo nell’ambito politico, ma anche in quello giudiziario, militare e religioso: esso segna la crisi della repubblica e l’inizio della sua disgregazione. Già all’opera col tribunato di Tiberio Gracco, è in seguito alimentato dai capifazione «sovversivi», tra cui emerge soprattutto Gaio Mario. Il vincitore della guerra giugurtina e della guerra cimbrica è qui rappresentato con un’ostilità e una vivacità espressiva che non hanno eguali nel resto della tradizione antica e che sembrano rifl ettere polemiche contemporanee.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus. --- Rome --- History --- Historiography.

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In the Imperial books of his Roman History, Cassius Dio focuses on individual emperors and imperial institutions to promote a political framework for the ideal monarchy, and to theorise autocracy’s typical problems and their solutions. The distinctive narrative structure of Dio’s work creates a unique sense of the past and allows us to see Roman history through a specific lens: that of a man who witnessed the Principate from the Antonines to the Severans. When Dio was writing, the Principate was a full-fledged historical fact, having experienced more than two hundred years of history, good and bad emperors, and three major civil wars. This collection of seven essays sets out to address these issues, and to see Dio not as an ‘adherent’ to or ‘advocate’ of monarchy, but rather as a theorist of its development and execution.

Monarchy --- Cassius Dio Cocceianus. --- Rome --- History --- Historiography.

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Cassius Dio described his own age as one of 'iron and rust'? This study, which is the first of its kind in English, examines the decline and decay that Cassius Dio diagnosed in this period (180-229 CE) through an analysis of the author's historiographic method and narrative construction. It shows that the final books were a crucial part of Dio's work, and it explains how Dio approached a period that he considered unworthy of history in view of his larger historiographic project

Historiography --- Cassius Dio Cocceianus. --- Roman history (Cassius Dio Cocceianus) --- 284-476 --- Rome --- Rome (Empire) --- History --- Historiography.