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Lucius Cassius Dio (c. 165 – c. 235), [i] also known as Dio Cassius (Ancient 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 Aeneas in Italy.
The first objective of these campaigns was - Velleius Paterculus and Cassius Dio report it - to make sure that these military operations would be useful for Octavian's legionaries to practice against a real enemy, and not "slumber in idleness," [30] in view of the far more decisive and forthcoming war against Antony, given the growing ...
Cassius Dio, Roman History, fragments of Book 64 (English translation by Earnest Cary on LacusCurtius). Plutarch, Life of Galba (English translation by A.H. Clough on Wikisource). Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, Vitellius (English translation by John Carew Rolfe on Wikisource).
Roman writers, including Tacitus and Cassius Dio, mention that Augustus left a statement ordering the end of imperial expansion. It's not known if Augustus actually made such an order, or if Tiberius found it necessary to stop Roman expansion as the costs were too great, both financially and militarily. [43]
The title Apokolokyntosis comes from the Roman historian Cassius Dio, who wrote in Greek. Cassius Dio attributed authorship of a satirical text on the death of Claudius, called Apokolokyntosis, to Seneca the Younger. [2] Only much later was the work referred to by Cassius Dio identified (with some degree of uncertainty) with the Ludus text. [3]
The source material comes from the works of three Roman historians, who were all born after the events of 52 AD. Suetonius (c. 69–75 to after 130, probably writing around AD 121), [6] and Cassius Dio (around 155–164 to after 229, probably writing 200–22) [7] both wrote about the event and quoted the phrase.
The Arch of Augustus (Latin: arcus Octaviani, Italian: Arco di Augusto) was the triumphal arch of Augustus, located in the Roman Forum. It spanned the Via Sacra, between the Temple of Castor and Pollux and the Temple of Caesar, near the Temple of Vesta, closing off the eastern end of the Forum. It can be regarded as the first permanent three ...
His most important work, Extracts of History (Ancient Greek: Ἐπιτομὴ Ἱστοριῶν, Latin: Epitome Historiarum), in eighteen books, extends from the creation of the world to the death of Alexius (1118). The earlier part is largely drawn from Josephus; for Roman history he chiefly followed Cassius Dio up to the early third century. [4]