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  title info:
    title: Cassius Dio, Roman history
    sub title: books 57 and 58 (the reign of Tiberius)
  title info:
    title: Roman history. Selections. English
  name:
    name part: Cassius Dio Cocceianus
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Mallan, Christopher Thomas
    name part: 1986-
    role:
      role term: translator,
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: lat
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 402 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: This volume provides a new translation of Books 57 and 58 of Cassius Dio's Roman History and the 'fragments' of these books preserved in later Byzantine epitomes, as well as the first English language commentary to examine them in their entirety. Dio's Roman History covers almost 1,000 years from the founding of Rome up to the early third century AD, with Books 57 and 58 focusing on the reign of the emperor Tiberius (AD 14-37), his account of this period is one of the most important to have survived from antiquity, not least as it preserves a historiographical tradition in some ways distinct from that of Tacitus and Suetonius. These books also reveal something of his authorial preoccupations and present a glimpse into the mind of the historian, and especially into his understanding of the mechanics of imperial government. The focus of the commentary is both historical and historiographical, in so far as it aims to illuminate not only issues arising from Dio's account of the Tiberian principate, but also to reveal the unity of his work and literary program, a series of appendices complement the analysis by providing discussion of some of the key historical problems surrounding Dio and the reign of Tiberius. The translation (the first since the Loeb Classical Library edition of E. Cary) aims for both clarity and accuracy, and particular care has been taken to separate the various textual traditions that have been used to reconstruct the lost portions of Dio's text. An accompanying general Introduction offers an accessible overview of Cassius Dio's approach to history based on the latest research in the field, and will be of particular use to graduate and undergraduate students coming to the text for the first time.
  note: translated with introduction and commentary by C.T. Mallan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
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    geographic code: ff-----
  subject:
    geographic: Rome
    topic: History
    temporal: Tiberius, 14-37
  classification: DG282 .C34213 2020
  classification: 937/.07
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Clarendon ancient history series
  identifier: 9780198797890
  identifier: 0198797893
  identifier: 2020009610
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200224
    record change date: 20210422122651.0
    record identifier: in00004400428