Cassius Dio and the Principate
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 uniq...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1772692026-06-06T05:52:00Z Cassius Dio and the Principate Ancient Rome Augustus Caesar Caligula and Claudius Caracalla Cassius Dio Cassius Dio’s contemporary history Cicero Civilitas Principis Commodus and Pertinax Consilium Contemporary historiography Domitian Dynastic succession Elagabalus Emperor-Senate relationships Ideal emperor Ideal Government Imperator Imperial Historiography Iron age Macrinus Mixed Constitution Theory Monarchy Pertinax Political structure Principate Roman History Senate Septimius Severus Severan dynasty Stoicism The Flavian dynasty Titus Vespasian Virtue thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHC Ancient history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology 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. 2026-06-06T05:51:59Z 2026-06-06T05:51:59Z 2026-06-05T15:21:29Z 2020 book 2724-3362 https://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-473-8/ https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/114031 9788869694721 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177269 ita Lexis Supplements open access image/jpeg https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/114031/4/8e5e4f68-dc3c-4190-822f-6df9b2d8e8f8.pdf Edizioni Ca’ Foscari – Venice University Press 10.30687/978-88-6969-472-1 10.30687/978-88-6969-472-1 9788869694721 Edizioni Ca’ Foscari – Venice University Press 188 Venice, Italy open access |
| spellingShingle | Ancient Rome Augustus Caesar Caligula and Claudius Caracalla Cassius Dio Cassius Dio’s contemporary history Cicero Civilitas Principis Commodus and Pertinax Consilium Contemporary historiography Domitian Dynastic succession Elagabalus Emperor-Senate relationships Ideal emperor Ideal Government Imperator Imperial Historiography Iron age Macrinus Mixed Constitution Theory Monarchy Pertinax Political structure Principate Roman History Senate Septimius Severus Severan dynasty Stoicism The Flavian dynasty Titus Vespasian Virtue thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHC Ancient history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology Cassius Dio and the Principate |
| title | Cassius Dio and the Principate |
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| topic | Ancient Rome Augustus Caesar Caligula and Claudius Caracalla Cassius Dio Cassius Dio’s contemporary history Cicero Civilitas Principis Commodus and Pertinax Consilium Contemporary historiography Domitian Dynastic succession Elagabalus Emperor-Senate relationships Ideal emperor Ideal Government Imperator Imperial Historiography Iron age Macrinus Mixed Constitution Theory Monarchy Pertinax Political structure Principate Roman History Senate Septimius Severus Severan dynasty Stoicism The Flavian dynasty Titus Vespasian Virtue thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHC Ancient history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology |
| topic_facet | Ancient Rome Augustus Caesar Caligula and Claudius Caracalla Cassius Dio Cassius Dio’s contemporary history Cicero Civilitas Principis Commodus and Pertinax Consilium Contemporary historiography Domitian Dynastic succession Elagabalus Emperor-Senate relationships Ideal emperor Ideal Government Imperator Imperial Historiography Iron age Macrinus Mixed Constitution Theory Monarchy Pertinax Political structure Principate Roman History Senate Septimius Severus Severan dynasty Stoicism The Flavian dynasty Titus Vespasian Virtue thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHC Ancient history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology |
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