Cassius Dio on Perusia: A Study in Human Nature During Civil War

Carsten Hjort Lange

doi:10.1163/9789004461604_015

Cassius Dio on Perusia: A Study in Human Nature During Civil War

Institut for Politik og Samfund

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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

Originalsprog	Engelsk
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	https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004461604_015
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

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Land/Område	Danmark
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Periode	07/12/2016 → 09/12/2016

Navn	Historiography of Rome and Its Empire
Vol/bind	10

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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.
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Lange, CH 2021, Cassius Dio on Perusia: A Study in Human Nature During Civil War. i CH Lange & JM Madsen (red), Cassius Dio the Historian: Methods and Approaches. Brill, Leiden and Boston, Historiography of Rome and Its Empire, bind 10, s. 336-362, Cassius Dio the Historian: Methods and Approaches/Call for papers, Odense , Danmark, 07/12/2016. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004461604_015

Cassius Dio on Perusia: A Study in Human Nature During Civil War. / Lange, Carsten Hjort.
Cassius Dio the Historian: Methods and Approaches. red. / Carsten Hjort Lange; Jesper Majbom Madsen. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021. s. 336-362 (Historiography of Rome and Its Empire, Bind 10).

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