Cassius Dio: The Impact of Violence, War, and Civil War

Carsten Hjort Lange (PhD University of Nottingham, 2008) is Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. Publications include two monographs, Res Publica Constituta: Actium, Apollo and the Accomplishment of the Triumviral Assignment (Brill, 2009) and Triumphs in the Age of Civil War: The Late Republic and the Adaptability of Triumphal Tradition (Bloomsbury, 2016). He has co-edited a volume on the Roman republican triumph with Frederik J. Vervaet (The Roman Republican Triumph: Beyond the Spectacle, Quasar 2014), a volume on Cassius Dio (Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician, Brill 2016) with Jesper M. Madsen, as well as a volume on historiography and civil war with Frederik J. Vervaet (The Historiography of Late Republican Civil War, Brill 2019).Andrew G. Scott (PhD Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2008) is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Villanova University. He is the author of Emperors and Usurpers: an historical commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman history, books 79(78)-80(80) (217-229 CE) (2018), and has written numerous articles and book chapters on the histories of Cassius Dio and Herodian, as well as on various aspects of Spartan social history. He is co-editor (with Jesper M. Madsen) of the forthcoming Brill’s Companion to Cassius Dio and is currently working on a monograph on books 73[72]-80[80] of Cassius Dio’s Roman history.Contributors are: Carsten H. Lange, Andrew G. Scott, Piotr Berdowski, Joel Allen, John Rich, Mads O. Lindholmer, Estelle Bertrand, Wolfgang Havener, Alex Imrie, Ayelet Peer, Konstantin V. Markov, Adam M. Kemezis, Sulochana R. Asirvatham and Josiah Osgood.

" As a group these collective volumes, and two further monographs, represent an important movement to better understand Dio as both an agent in and reporter of Rome's history. [...] Our knowledge of Roman history from the late Republic through the early third century CE is heavily dependent upon Cassius Dio. Hence the importance for all areas of Roman studies of volumes such as this one, which help us to a better understanding of how Dio's thinking shaped the way he constructed his narrative." David S. Potter, SEHEPUNKTE - Ausgabe 21 (2021), Nr. 4.

• Notes on ContributorsHistoriography of Rome and Its Empire SeriesCassius Dio: Between War and Civil WarCarsten Hjort Lange and Andrew G. Scottpart 1: Violence1 Violence as an Interpretive Category in Cassius Dio: The Terror under Sulla in 82 BCEPiotr Berdowski2 Gossip of Violence and Violence of Gossip: Livia’s Lament and Its Remedy in Cassius Dio’s Severan ContextJoel Allenpart 2: War3 Causation and Morality: Cassius Dio on the Origins of Rome’s External Wars under the RepublicJohn Rich4 Caesar’s Campaigns in Cassius Dio’s Late RepublicMads Ortving Lindholmer5 Cassius Dio and the Roman Empire: the Impact of the Severan Wars on Dio’s NarrativeEstelle Bertrand6 “A Warlike Man” – Cassius Dio’s Perception and Interpretation of the Imperial Military personaWolfgang Havenerpart 3: Civil War and the City of Rome7 The War Comes Home: Rome and Romans during Civil Conflict in the Roman HistoryAlex Imrie8 Talking Heads: the Rostra as a Conspicuous Civil War MonumentCarsten Hjort LangePart 4: Civil War and the Senate9 Cassius Dio, Cicero and the Complexity of Civil WarAyelet Peer10 Cassius Dio on Senatorial Activities as a Factor of Political Instability and Civil WarKonstantin V. Markov11 Cassius Dio and Senatorial Memory of Civil War in the 190sAdam M. KemezisPart 5: Civil War and the Severans12 Cassius Dio, Ὁμόνοια, and Civil WarSulochana R. Asirvatham13 “If You Do Wrong, You Will Be King!”: The Civil War Victor in Cassius DioJosiah Osgood14 Civil War and Governmental Change: From the Achievements of Augustus to the Failures of the SeveransAndrew G. ScottIndex