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2018-05-25
This paper will explore Augustus’ efforts to curb senatorial absenteeism, particularly as codified in a Lex Julia de senatu habendo passed in 9 BCE. In both The Senate of Imperial Rome and a 1984 article on “Augustus and the Senate” in Greece & Rome, Richard Talbert observed, “our knowledge of...
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2018-05-26
So I start with a simple observation, which is that Dio occasionally comments on the Greek and Latin bilingualism of emperors. Marcus Aurelius is the one that originally caught my eye, and I think it’s interesting to chew on because although I admit that I have not read every single piece of...
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2018-05-25
Cassius Dio, as I think we've all figured out, had no problem talking about himself. He has lots of aspects of his life about which he's downright garrulous, including is political career and his literary endeavors. Nonetheless, as often happens with chatty people who have lived interesting...
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2018-05-25
The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate unavoidably quickly how Dio creates a sense of a shared senatorial experience during his lifetime. If you read the work of Lukas de Blois, for example, you will find claims that he is obsessed with soldiers and their disruptive influence on Rome. As...
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2018-05-25
In this paper I want to explore Cassius Dio’s response to the intellectual and cultural context of his time and the effect of that response upon the way in which he wrote history. Dio is frequently described as an exponent of the Second Sophistic, a ‘sophistic author’, or even in one extreme...
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2018-05-25
Recent research and the conferences of the Dio-network have demonstrated that Dio was a sophisticated and often consistent historian with independent interpretations. I will use this insight to analyse the language Dio used to describe the salutatio and through this further support the argument...
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2018-05-25
It is well-known that in his History Cassius Dio gave considerable space to divine portents. These would often disclose the destiny of future emperors, but, in some cases, it was the emperors who made use of predictions to legitimate their actions. As regards this latter group, two prophecies of...