1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910816109803321

Titolo

Cassius dio : greek intellectual and roman politician

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[S.l.] : , : Brill, , 2016

ISBN

90-04-33531-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Historiography of Rome and its empire ; ; 1

Disciplina

303.64

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Between History and Politics / Carsten Hjort Lange and Jesper Majbom Madsen -- Cassius Dio’s Sulla: Exemplum of Cruelty and Republican Dictator / Gianpaolo Urso -- Cassius Dio on Pompey’s Extraordinary Commands / Marianne Coudry -- The Sources of Cassius Dio for the Roman Civil Wars of 49–30 bc / Richard Westall -- Cassius Dio and the Foreigners / Søren Lund Sørensen -- Mock the Triumph: Cassius Dio, Triumph and Triumph-Like Celebrations / Carsten Hjort Lange -- Cassius Dio and the City of Rome / Alain M. Gowing -- Criticising the Benefactors: The Severans and the Return of Dynastic Rule / Jesper Majbom Madsen -- Dio the Dissident: The Portrait of Severus in the Roman History / Jussi Rantala -- Cassius Dio’s Secret History of Elagabalus / Josiah Osgood -- Fictitious Speeches, Envy, and the Habituation to Authority: Writing the Collapse of the Roman Republic / Christopher Burden-Strevens -- Speeches in Dio Cassius / Andriy Fomin -- Dio, Caesar and the Vesontio Mutineers (38.34–47): A Rhetoric of Lies / Adam Kemezis -- Parrhêsia in Cassius Dio / Christopher Mallan -- Historiography and Panegyric: The Deconstruction of Imperial Representation in Cassius Dio’s Roman History / Verena Schulz -- Cassius Dio – Pepaideumenos and Politician on Kingship / Brandon Jones -- Alexander the Great in Cassius Dio / Jesper Carlsen -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Winner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician , a collection of essays on this historian, is the first to appear in the new Brill series Historiography of Rome and Its Empire . The volume brings together



case studies that highlight various aspects of Dio’s Roman History , focusing on previously ignored or misunderstood aspects of his narrative. The main purpose of the volume is to pursue a combined historiographic, literary and rhetorical analysis of Dio’s work and of its political and intellectual agendas. Dio's work is often used as a handy resource, with scholars looking at isolated sections of his annalistic structure. Contrary to this approach, the volume puts emphasis on Cassius Dio and his Roman History in its historiographical setting, thus allowing us to link and understand the different parts of his work.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136641703321

Autore

Blobaum Robert E.

Titolo

Rewolucja : Russian Poland, 1904-1907 / / Robert E. Blobaum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-5017-0535-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : 25 halftones

Disciplina

943.8/033

Soggetti

HISTORY / Europe / Eastern

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- A Note on Dates, Names, and Sources -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1. Russian State, Polish Society -- 2. The Making of a Revolution, 1904 -- 3. The Emergence of the Labor Movement -- 4. The Revolution in the Countryside -- 5. The Struggle over Education -- 6. The Transformation of Political Culture -- 7. The Church and the Revolution -- 8. The Impact of Martial Law -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The revolution of 1905 in the Russian-ruled Kingdom of Poland marked the consolidation of major new influences on the political scene. As he examines the emergence of a mass political culture in Poland, Robert E. Blobaum offers the first history in any Western language of this watershed period. Drawing on extensive archival research to explore the history of Poland's revolutionary upheavals, Blobaum departs from



traditional interpretations of these events as peripheral to an essentially Russian movement that reached a climax in the Russian Revolution of 1917. He demonstrates that, although Polish independence was not formally recognized until after World War I, the social and political conditions necessary for nationhood were established in the years around 1905.