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Introduction: conversations with the author

dc.contributor.authorKemezis, Adam M.
dc.contributor.authorBailey, Colin
dc.contributor.authorPoletti, Beatrice
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-14T19:19:21Z
dc.date.available2023-04-14T19:19:21Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractIn the Rome of the Severan and Antonine eras, as at any time or place, literature was a social and even communal practice. The works we have were written not just by authors, but for, to, with, among, about, and against those authors' friends, neighbors, superiors, dependents, predecessors, and competitors. Books were produced and processed in a physical and human infrastructure of libraries, bookstores, reading circles, and literary staff personnel ranging from the elite to the enslaved. This is undoubtedly the world in which Cassius Dio lived, but one would hardly know it from his writings. He was a contemporary and, in some cases, likely an acquaintance of Philostratus, Galen, Aelian, and Athenaeus. But none of these men mentions him, nor he them. His contemporary books are full of self-portraiture: We see Dio as a senator, an administrator, and a privileged observer, but seldom in the role of author, and never as one author among others.
dc.description.urihttps://library.macewan.ca/full-record/cat00565a/9928713
dc.identifier.citationKemezis, A.M., C. Bailey & B. Poletti, “Introduction: Conversations with the Author.” In Kemezis, A.M, C. Bailey & B. Poletti, eds., The Intellectual Climate of Cassius Dio: Greek and Roman Pasts: 1-29. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2022.
dc.identifier.isbn9789004510487
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/3058
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved
dc.subjectCassius Dio
dc.subjectSeveran dynasty
dc.subjectpoliticians
dc.subjectRome
dc.titleIntroduction: conversations with the authoren
dc.typeBook Chapter

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