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Abstract
From Thucydides to Kalyvas, civil war is associated with wickedness and personal animosities. This contribution seeks to view the violence of the Late Republican civil war through the lens applied to it by Cassius Dio. It focusses on Dio’s portrayal of the use of violence by Young Caesar upon the fall of Perusia early in 40 BCE—allegedly followed by the killing of three hundred Senators and equites as well as the Perusine citizens. Violence was not only a conspicuous part of civil war, but also had a distinct purpose—viz. the elimination of personal enemies and the confirmation of power. This use of indiscriminate as opposed to selective violence speaks volumes about the balance of power in Italy: Young Caesar was not in total control in 41-40 BCE. Dio did not wholeheartedly commit to the story of the three hundred, but he still mentions it: clearly this concerns not only Dio’s wish to understand human nature and the leading civil war protagonists; it concerns also the impact of civil war, and the historian’s approach to it through narrative.
Keywords: Roman historiography; civil war
Keywords: Roman historiography; civil war
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Titel | Cassius Dio the Historian : Methods and Approaches |
Redaktører | Carsten Hjort Lange, Jesper Majbom Madsen |
Antal sider | 26 |
Udgivelsessted | Leiden and Boston |
Forlag | Brill |
Publikationsdato | 27 maj 2021 |
Sider | 336-362 |
Kapitel | 13 |
ISBN (Trykt) | 978-90-04-46148-2 |
ISBN (Elektronisk) | 978-90-04-46160-4 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 27 maj 2021 |
Begivenhed | Cassius Dio the Historian: Methods and Approaches/Call for papers - SDU, Odense , Danmark Varighed: 7 dec. 2016 → 9 dec. 2016 |
Konference
Konference | Cassius Dio the Historian: Methods and Approaches/Call for papers |
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Lokation | SDU |
Land/Område | Danmark |
By | Odense |
Periode | 07/12/2016 → 09/12/2016 |
Navn | Historiography of Rome and Its Empire |
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Vol/bind | 10 |
Fingeraftryk
Dyk ned i forskningsemnerne om 'Cassius Dio on Perusia: A Study in Human Nature During Civil War'. Sammen danner de et unikt fingeraftryk.Projekter
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Cassius Dio: Between History and Politics (Forskernetværk, FKK)
Lange, C. H., Madsen, J. M., Hinge, G., Osgood, J., Kemezis, A., Coudry, M., Allen, J., Ando, C., Asirvatham, S., Baron, C., Burden-Strevens, C., Gowing, A., Jones, B., Kuhn, A., Kuhn, C., Langford, J., Mallan, C., Markov, K., Mastrorosa, I. G., Rich, J., Scott, A. G., Schultz, V., Urso, G. & Vaahtera, J.
01/08/2016 → 31/07/2018
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Cassius Dio the Historian: Methods and Approaches
Carsten Hjort Lange (Arrangør)
7 dec. 2016 → 9 dec. 2016Aktivitet: Deltagelse i faglig begivenhed › Organisering af eller deltagelse i konference