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Cassius Apronianus (father), Cassius Dio (grandchild or great-grandchild) Lucius Cassius Dio ( c. 165 – c. 235 ), [i] also known as Dio Cassius ( Greek: Δίων Κάσσιος Dion Kassios ), was a Roman historian and senator of maternal Greek origin. He published 80 volumes of the history of ancient Rome, beginning with the arrival of ...
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Dio Cassius (born c. 150, Nicaea, Bithynia [now İznik, Tur.]—died 235) was a Roman administrator and historian, the author of Romaika, a history of Rome, written in Greek, that is a most important authority for the last years of the republic and the early empire.
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Aug 10, 2020 · Cassius Dio's Roman History. John Adams Library (Public Domain) Cassius Dio (c. 164 - c. 229/235 CE) was a Roman politician and historian. Although he held a number of political offices with distinction, he is best known for his 80-volume Roman History. The work took 22 years to complete, was written in Attic Greek, and follows Roman history ...
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Roman History, Volume I. Books 1-11. Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), ca. 150– 235 CE, 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.
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5 days ago · Greek senator and author of an 80‐book history of Rome from the foundation of the city to ad 229. Dio came from a prominent family of Nicaea in Bithynia. He was praetor in 194 and suffect consul c. 204. From 218 to 228 he was successively curator of Pergamum and Smyrna, proconsul of Africa, and legate first of Dalmatia and then of Upper Pannonia.
Cassius Dio. Cassius Dio (164-c.235): Roman senator of Greek descent, historian, author of a very important Roman History. Like Arrian of Nicomedia and Appian of Alexandria, Cassius Dio (164-c.235) was a Greek by birth and a Roman by conviction, and one of the great historians of Antiquity. He belonged to a wealthy family ( Dio Chrysostom was ...
Mar 8, 2017 · Cassius Dio, also sometimes known as Lucius, was a Greek historian from a leading family of Nicaea in Bithynia. He is perhaps best known for publishing a through history of Rome in 80 separate volumes. Cassius Dio was born in Bithynia around 165 AD. Dio’s exact birth name is unknown, although it is probable that his full birth name was ...
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