Cassius Dio ─ Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician

Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician brings together case studies that highlight various aspects of Cassius Dio’s Roman History. It puts emphasis on Dio’s text in its historiographical setting, thus allowing us to link and understand the different parts of his work.

Carsten Hjort Lange, Ph.D. (2008), University of Nottingham, is Assistant Professor at Aalborg University, and co-editor of Brill's Historiography of Rome and its Empire series. He is the author of 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). Jesper Majbom Madsen, Ph.D. (2006), Aarhus University, is Associate Professor and Director of Teaching at the University of Southern Denmark, and co-editor of Brill’s Historiography of Rome and its Empire series. He is the author of Eager to be Roman: Greek Response to Roman Rule in Pontus and Bithynia (Duckworth, 2009) and is the co-editor of Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing: Double Vision (Brill, 2014).Contributors are: Christopher Burden-Strevens, Jesper Carlsen, Marianne Coudry, Andriy Fomin, Alain Gowing, Brandon Jones, Adam Kemezis, Carsten Hjort Lange, Jesper Majbom Madsen, Christopher Mallan, Josiah Osgood, Jussi Rantala, Verena Schulz, Soren Lund Sorensen, Gianpaolo Urso and Richard Westall.