Roman History, Volume VI Books 51 55

Cassius, Dio, translated by Earnest Cary, From The Work Of Herbert B. Foster

ISBN 10: 0674990927 / ISBN 13: 9780674990920

Edité par Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1980

Green cloth, slight edge rubbing, light age freckling on top page edges. In slightly edge rubbed DJ. Now protected in a mylar jacket. ; Loeb Classic, # 83; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 492 pages. N° de réf. du vendeur 60537

Synopsis :

A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus.

Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150–235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and under the emperor Commodus was an advocate. He held high offices, becoming a close friend of several emperors; he was made governor of Pergamum and Smyrna; consul in 220; proconsul of Africa; governor of Dalmatia and then of Pannonia; and consul again in 229.

Of the eighty books of Dio's great work Roman History, covering the era from the legendary landing of Aeneas in Italy to the reign of Alexander Severus (AD 222–235), we possess Books 36–60 (36 and 55–60 have gaps), which cover the years 68 BC–AD 47. The missing portions are partly supplied, for the earlier gaps by Zonaras, who relies closely on Dio, and for some later gaps (Book 35 onwards) by John Xiphilinus (of the eleventh century). There are also many excerpts. The facilities for research afforded by Dio's official duties and his own industry make him a very vital source for Roman history of the last years of the republic and the first four emperors.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Dio Cassius is in nine volumes.

À propos de l'auteur: Earnest Cary (b. 1879) taught classics at Harvard and Princeton.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Roman History, Volume VI Books 51 55
Éditeur : Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
Date d'édition : 1980
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Very Good
Etat de la jaquette : Very Good