Roman history

Resource Information

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Label

Roman history

Statement of responsibility

Dio Cassius ; with an English translation by Earnest Cary and Herbert B. Foster

Creator

• Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Contributor

• Cary, Earnest, 1879-
• Foster, Herbert Baldwin, 1874-1906

Author

• Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Translator

• Foster, Herbert Baldwin, 1874-1906
• Cary, Earnest, 1879-

Subject

• Roman law
• Rome -- History
• Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D
• Rome (Empire)
• Electronic resources

Language

• eng
• grc
• grc
• eng

Summary

Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), c. 150-235 CE, was born in Bithynia. Little of his Roman History survives, but missing portions are partly supplied from elsewhere and there are many excerpts. Dio's work is a vital source for the last years of the Roman republic and the first four Roman emperors.

Member of

• Historia Romana
• Loeb Classical Library, 32, 37, 53, 66, 82-83, 175-177

Cataloging source

MaCbHUP

Language note

Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages

LC call number

PA3612

LC item number

.D563 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Series statement

Loeb Classical Library ;

Series volume

32, 37, 53, 66, 82-83, 175-177

Summary expansion

Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), ca. 150- 235 CE, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and under the emperor Commodus was an advocate. He held high offices, becoming a close friend of several emperors. He was made governor of Pergamum and Smyrna; consul in 220; proconsul of Africa; governor of Dalmatia and then of Pannonia; and consul again in 229. Of the eighty books of Dio's great work Roman History, covering the era from the legendary landing of Aeneas in Italy to the reign of Alexander Severus (222-235 CE), we possess Books 36-60 (36 and 55-60 have gaps), which cover the years 68 BCE-47 CE. The missing portions are partly supplied, for the earlier gaps by Zonaras, who relies closely on Dio, and for some later gaps (Book 35 onwards) by John Xiphilinus (of the eleventh century). There are also many excerpts. The facilities for research afforded by Dio's official duties and his own industry make him a very vital source for Roman history of the last years of the republic and the first four emperors. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Dio Cassius is in nine volumes

Target audience

general