Teoria politica e scrittura storiografica nei ‘libri imperiali’ della Storia

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_4547
dc.contributor.author	Bono Martina
dc.title	Teoria politica e scrittura storiografica nei ‘libri imperiali’ della Storia Romana di Cassio Dione
dc.type	Capitolo
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	This paper investigates to what extent the emergence of the princeps shapes Dio’s narrative. The best fitting passages for investigating this topic are the so called “anectodical-biographical sections”, which cannot be utterly dismissed as pieces of imperial biography: it would be better to consider those sections as devoted to the evaluation of the emperor’s praxis of government on a very concrete (rather that moralistic) ground. These narrative proceedings betray the existence of a well-structured framework lying beneath the work’s building in terms of political thought. In fact, Dio develops a consistent perspective about the relationship he expected between the princeps and the senate, fashioned, to my mind, by the princeps civilis model. This paradigm is sustained by a very classical political theory, although remoulded: the ‘mixed constitution’ theory.
dc.relation.ispartof	Lexis Supplementi
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi di Letteratura Greca e Latina
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/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-473-8/teoria-politica-e-scrittura-storiografica-nei-libr/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-472-1/002
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
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Cassius Dio’s contemporary history
dc.subject	Cassius Dio’s contemporary history
dc.subject	Civilitas Principis
dc.subject	Civilitas Principis
dc.subject	Emperor-Senate relationships
dc.subject	Emperor-Senate relationships
dc.subject	Imperial Historiography
dc.subject	Imperial Historiography
dc.subject	Mixed Constitution Theory
dc.subject	Mixed Constitution Theory

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Teoria politica e scrittura storiografica nei ‘libri imperiali’ della Storia Romana di Cassio Dione

Martina Bono Università di Pavia, Italia

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This paper investigates to what extent the emergence of the princeps shapes Dio’s narrative. The best fitting passages for investigating this topic are the so called “anectodical-biographical sections”, which cannot be utterly dismissed as pieces of imperial biography: it would be better to consider those sections as devoted to the evaluation of the emperor’s praxis of government on a very concrete (rather that moralistic) ground. These narrative proceedings betray the existence of a well-structured framework lying beneath the work’s building in terms of political thought. In fact, Dio develops a consistent perspective about the relationship he expected between the princeps and the senate, fashioned, to my mind, by the princeps civilis model. This paradigm is sustained by a very classical political theory, although remoulded: the ‘mixed constitution’ theory.

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21 Dicembre 2020

Accettato

13 Ottobre 2020

Presentato

08 Settembre 2020

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978-88-6969-473-8

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978-88-6969-472-1

Keywords: Imperial Historiography • Mixed Constitution Theory • Cassius Dio’s contemporary history • Civilitas Principis • Emperor-Senate relationships

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-472-1/002

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