The ‘Age of Iron and Rust’ in Cassius Dio’s Roman

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_4549
dc.contributor.author	Noe Christopher
dc.title	The ‘Age of Iron and Rust’ in Cassius Dio’s Roman History: Influences from Stoic Philosophy
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This paper discusses the impact of Stoic philosophy on Cassius Dio’s imperial books of his Roman History. It is demonstrated how fundamental Stoic ideas influenced Dio’s constitutional discussions and the role of the emperor as in the Agrippa-Maecenas debate in book 52, and how Dio evaluated political environments as well as political developments in the Empire with inspirations from Stoic logic. Moreover, this paper argues that the iron age in his contemporary narrative from the emperor Commodus to Caracalla is also fundamentally an iron age on the basis of Stoic values.
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dc.relation.ispartof	Lexis Studies in Greek and Latin Literature
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-12-21
dc.dateAccepted	2020-10-13
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-09-08
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-473-8/the-age-of-iron-and-rust-in-cassius-dios-roman-his/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-472-1/006
dc.identifier.issn	2210-8866
dc.identifier.eissn	2724-3362
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-473-8
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-472-1
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
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dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Ideal emperor
dc.subject	Ideal emperor
dc.subject	Iron age
dc.subject	Iron age
dc.subject	Political structure
dc.subject	Political structure
dc.subject	Stoicism
dc.subject	Stoicism
dc.subject	Virtue
dc.subject	Virtue

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The ‘Age of Iron and Rust’ in Cassius Dio’s Roman History: Influences from Stoic Philosophy

Christopher Noe Syddansk Universitet, Danmark

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This paper discusses the impact of Stoic philosophy on Cassius Dio’s imperial books of his Roman History. It is demonstrated how fundamental Stoic ideas influenced Dio’s constitutional discussions and the role of the emperor as in the Agrippa-Maecenas debate in book 52, and how Dio evaluated political environments as well as political developments in the Empire with inspirations from Stoic logic. Moreover, this paper argues that the iron age in his contemporary narrative from the emperor Commodus to Caracalla is also fundamentally an iron age on the basis of Stoic values.

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Dec. 21, 2020

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Oct. 13, 2020

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Sept. 8, 2020

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978-88-6969-473-8

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Keywords: Political structure • Virtue • Ideal emperor • Stoicism • Iron age

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