Emperors and political culture in Cassius Dio's Roman history /
Davenport, Caillan,1981-editor.
Mallan, Christopher Thomas,1986-editor.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Vox populi, vox mea? information, evaluation and public opinion in Dio's account of the Principate / Adam Kemezis -- News, rumour, and the political culture of the Roman imperial monarchy in the "Roman history" / Caillan Davenport -- Literary and documentary sources in Dio's narrative of the Roman emperors / Cesare Letta -- 'Now comes the greatest marvel of all!' (79[78].8.2): Dio's Roman emperors and the incredible / Rhiannon Ash -- Cassius Dio's funeral speech for Augustus: sources, rhetoric, messages / Christina T. Kuhn -- '...but he possessed a most singular nature': Cassius Dio on Tiberius / Christopher Mallan -- An emperor's war on Greece: Cassius Dio's Nero / Shushma Malik -- War and peace: imperial leadership in Dio's second-century narrative / Caillan Davenport -- 'The people' and Cassius Dio / Monica Hellström -- Citizenship, enfranchisement, and honour in Cassius Dio / Myles Lavan -- The company they keep: emperors and their associates / Barbara Saylor Rodgers -- Dio and his friends: autobiography and biography in Dio's contemporary narrative / Christopher Mallan -- The reception of Cassius Dio's imperial narrative in Byzantium (tenth-twelfth centuries) / Alicia Simpson -- Epilogue: And now...? / Christopher Pelling.
Cassius Dio Cocceianus.
Roman history (Cassius Dio Cocceianus)
Emperors
Political culture
Emperors
Political culture
Politics and government.