Cassius Dion : nouvelles lectures. 2 volumes

The Roman History written in Greek by Cassius Dio (c. 160-235 CE), covering ten centuries in eighty books, is a major source for all specialists of the Greco-Roman world. However, it is still not sufficiently known and studied, since vicissitudes in the transmission of the text, which has come down to us partly in fragmentary form, have long hindered study of the work as a whole. The purpose of this monograph is twofold: it aims both to sum up the main trends in research on Dio over the last fifty years and to open up new paths of inquiry into previously neglected areas. The forty-six contributions gathered in this volume, the result of close collaboration between historians and philologists, offer detailed analyses as well as broader studies. Organised in three major sections (I. Tradition and Reception of the Text, II. History of Rome under the Severans, III. Cassius Dio, historian of power), this collection proposes an updated and renewed vision of a major historian who strongly deserves to be rediscovered.