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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.
Contents
Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series
Acknowledgements
Table of Speeches
1 Introduction
1 From One King to Another
2 Speechwriting and the Historian
3 Cassius Dio and the Decline of the Republic
4 The Historian and his World
5 Using This Book
2 Method
1 The Composition of Dio's Speeches: Three Problems
2 Three Problems, or Three Strengths?
3 Oratory
1 Beginnings: Early Roman Oratory
2 Decline: Dynasty and Deception
3 Restoration: Augustus and the Principate
4 Morality
1 Envy and Odium
2 Selfish Ambition, or Love of Honour?
3 Covetousness and Cupidity
4 Moral Revolution, or Constitutional Change?
5 Institutions & Empire
1 Successive Office-Holding and the High Command
2 The Dictatorship and Tyranny
3 Tradition and Innovation
6 Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
