Editorial: Brill
Colección: Historiography of Rome and Its Empire ; 18
Número de páginas: págs.
Fecha de edición: 30-03-2023
EAN: 9789004541115
ISBN: 978-90-04-54111-5
Precio (sin IVA): 109,00 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 113,36 €
Cassius Dio described his own age as one of “iron and rust.” This study, which is the first of its kind in English, examines the decline and decay that Cassius Dio diagnosed in this period (180-229 CE) through an analysis of the author’s historiographic method and narrative construction. It shows that the final books were a crucial part of Dio’s work, and it explains how Dio approached a period that he considered unworthy of history in view of his larger historiographic project.