An age of iron and rust

• Verfasst von: Scott, Andrew G. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: An age of iron and rust
• Titelzusatz: Cassius Dio and the history of his time
• Verf.angabe: by Andrew G. Scott
• Verlagsort: Leiden ; Boston
• Verlag: Brill
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: [2023]
• Umfang: VIII, 258 Seiten
• Format: 25 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Historiography of Rome and its empire ; volume 18
• Fussnoten: Literaturverzeichnis Seite [213]-231
• ISBN: 978-90-04-54111-5
• ISBN: 90-04-54111-X
• Schlagwörter: (g)Römisches Reich / (s)Geschichtsschreibung
• Schlagwörter: (p)Cassius <Dio>
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe
• K10plus-PPN: 1851201955

Abstract

Cassius Dio described his own age as one of 'iron and rust'? This study, which is the first of its kind in English, examines the decline and decay that Cassius Dio diagnosed in this period (180-229 CE) through an analysis of the author's historiographic method and narrative construction. It shows that the final books were a crucial part of Dio's work, and it explains how Dio approached a period that he considered unworthy of history in view of his larger historiographic project