Die Maecenas-Rede bei Cassius Dio: Anachronismen und intertextuelle Bezüge

Kuhlmann, Peter Alois; Pausch, Dennis

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“…7.9), the mytho-historical queen of Rome and wife of Tarquinius Priscus, appears to have been our historian's first attempt in the Roman History to explore a theme of fundamental importance to his story: the moral ambiguity of rhetoric, especially its deceptive power in 30 The bibliography on the Agrippa-Maecenas debate is enormous, and will not be surveyed here. For Maecenas (especially as a reflection of Dio's political views, usually about the Severan period), see Hammond 1932, 88-102;Beicken 1962, 444-467;Millar 1964, 102-118;Usher 1969, 252;Dalheim 1984, 216;Dorandi 1985, 56-60;Fechner 1986, 71-86;Reinhold 1988 179;Rich 1989, 99;and Kuhlmann 2010. Agrippa has generally received less attention.…”

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Cassius Dio the Historian

Madsen¹,

Lange²

2021

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Villanova) both for extending the invitation to submit a chapter to this volume and for their kind patience. Translations are those of Cary's 1914Cary's -1927 Loeb Classical Library edition, with minor alterations. 1 There is, of course, the brief excursus giving Dio's view of 'democracy' (δημοκρατία) which punctuates the narrative of Caesar's assassination at 44.2, but this is noticeably brief in comparison to the account of the Augustan Settlement which occupies most of Books 52 and 53.

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Cassius Dio the Historian

Madsen¹,

Lange²

2021

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“…Though the trope of describing foreign (and especially Persian) rule as enslavement goes back to Herodotus and Thucydides, no earlier Greek historian of Rome makes such extensive use of the trope of enslavement in describing Roman expansion or the condition of the provinces. Denunciations of enslavement to Rome can certainly be found in embedded speeches attributed to Rome's enemies, but such language is hardly ever found in the rhetoric of Roman speakers or in the narrative 31 On the politics of the speech of Maecenas, see especially Kuhlmann (2010), Reinhold (1988) voice as it is in Dio. 34 Taken together, the texts of Polybius, Diodorus, Dionysius and Appian can offer only a handful of examples.…”

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Florus and Dio on the Enslavement of the Provinces

Lavan

2013

Camb. class. j.

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This paper draws attention to the unprecedented prominence of metaphors of enslavement to Rome in the historical narratives of Florus and Cassius Dio. Following an analysis of the thematic importance of the trope in their respective works, I point to further parallels in Herodian and Justin which suggest that the trope proved particularly productive in both Latin and Greek historiography in the late second and early third centuries CE. The end of the paper considers broader cultural developments that might underlie this phenomenon, notably the proliferation of dominus as an epithet for the emperor and the ongoing enfranchisement of provincials.

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“…See, e.g., Meyer 1891; Jardé 1925, 26-32;Hammond 1932;Gabba 1955, 311-25, andBleicken 1962;Millar 1964, 102-18;Berrigan 1968;van Stekelenburg 1971, 110-16;Manuwald 1979, 21-25;McKechnie 1981;Espinosa Ruiz 1982;Zawadzki 1983;Fechner 1986, 71-86;Reinhold 1988, 165-210;Steidle 1988, 203-11;Fishwick 1990;Smyshlyayev 1991;Kuhlmann 2010. Scholars have typically shown greater interest in the Maecenas speech (especially in regard to its specific proposals for political reform) than its Agrippan corollary.…”

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“…111;Forte 1972, 485-86;Manuwald 1979, 21;McKechnie 1981, esp. 150;Zawadzki 1983, 276, 296;Barnes 1984, 254;Aalders 1986, 282, n. 6;Reinhold 1988, 179, who believes that the Maecenas oration "is the authentic voice of Dio: it contains the essence of his pragmatic thinking about the Empire, the monarchy to which he was unreservedly committed, and the interests and role of his social class in the imperial governance"; Gowing 1992, 25-26;Swan 2004, 28;Kuhlmann 2010, esp. 117-18.…”

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Cassius Dio’s Agrippa-Maecenas Debate: An Operational Code Analysis

Adler¹

2012

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This article discusses Cassius Dio’s political thought in his Agrippa-Maecenas debate (52.2–40) through the use of a form of content analysis developed by political scientists called “operational code analysis.” It offers a description of operational code analysis, which demonstrates the value of this method to the debate. It then presents an examination of Dio’s operational code, from which one can glean his philosophical and instrumental views on politics. It argues, inter alia , that the Agrippa address is based on the same epistemological foundations as the Maecenean corollary. Further, the article stresses that the Agrippa oration remains consistent with views Dio expresses elsewhere in his history. This suggests that scholars should not discount the efficacy of the Agrippa oration, despite its utopian character.

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Die Maecenas-Rede bei Cassius Dio: Anachronismen und intertextuelle Bezüge

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Cassius Dio the Historian

Florus and Dio on the Enslavement of the Provinces

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