Series | Lexis Supplements
Volume 2 | Edited book | Cassius Dio and the Principate
Cassius Dio and the Principate
open access | peer reviewed-
edited by
- Christopher Burden-Strevens - University of Kent, UK - email
- Jesper Majbom Madsen - Syddansk Universitet, Danmark - email
- Antonio Pistellato - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
Aims & Scope
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.
Keywords Cicero Dynastic succession Civilitas Principis Consilium Caesar Monarchy Ideal Government Emperor-Senate relationships Titus Pertinax Vespasian Elagabalus Imperial Historiography Contemporary historiography Senate Ancient Rome Caracalla Augustus Cassius Dio’s contemporary history Commodus and Pertinax Macrinus Septimius Severus Virtue Principate The Flavian dynasty Stoicism Ideal emperor Iron age Domitian Mixed Constitution Theory Political structure Severan dynasty Caligula and Claudius Imperator Cassius Dio Roman History
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-472-1 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-473-8 | e-ISSN 978-88-6969-472-1 | Number of pages 188 | Dimensions 16x23cm | Published Dec. 21, 2020 | Language it, en
