TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burden-Strevens,Christopher
TI  - Cassius Dio's Speeches and the Collapse of the Roman Republic: The Roman History, Books 3-56 
T2  - Historiography of Rome and Its Empire
SN  - 9789004431362
AV  - DG205 
U1  - 937/.07 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Cassius Dio Cocceianus.
KW  - Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Rhetoric, Ancient
KW  - Rome
KW  - History
KW  - Historiography
N1  - Front Matter --; Copyright page --; Dedication --; Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series; Carsten H. Lange and Jesper M. Madsen --; Acknowledgements --; Table of Speeches --; Introduction --; Method --; Oratory --; Morality --; Institutions & Empire --; Epilogue --; Back Matter --; Bibliography --; Index
N2  - In Cassius Dio's Speeches and the Collapse of the Roman Republic, Christopher Burden-Strevens provides a radical reinterpretation of the importance of public speech in one of our most significant historical sources for the bloody and dramatic transition from Republic to Principate. Cassius Dio's Roman History, composed in eighty books early in the 3rd century CE, has only recently come to be appreciated as a sophisticated work of history-writing. In this book, Burden-Strevens demonstrates the central role played by speeches in Dio's original analysis of the decline of the Republic and the success of the emperor Augustus' regime, including a detailed study of their possible sources, themes, methods of composition, and their distinctiveness within the traditions of Roman historiography
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004431362
ER  -