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Lucius Cassius Dio [ii] was the son of Cassius Apronianus, a Roman senator and member of the Cassia gens, who was born and raised at Nicaea in Bithynia. Byzantine tradition maintains that Dio's mother was the daughter or sister of the Greek orator and philosopher, Dio Chrysostom; however, this relationship has been disputed.
He is known from the Historia Romana of Cassius Dio, who gives an account of the campaigns of Septimius Severus in that region. [1] His name means "silver leg" and shows that the Picts were Celts. [2] After treaty negotiations in the year 210, his wife spoke with the Empress, Julia Augusta, about Caledonian and Roman society.
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Literary Sources for Roman Britain: 9780903625265 12 The Culture of Athens: 9780903625159 13 From the Gracchi to Sulla: 9780903625166 14 Plutarch: Cato the Younger: 9780903625180 15 Dio: The Julio-Claudians. Selections from Books 58-63 of the Roman History of Cassius Dio: 9780903625210 16 The Persian Empire from Cyrus II to Artaxerxes I ...
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 ...
Fragmenta Valesiana is the name given to fragments of Roman text written by Cassius Dio, dispersed throughout various writers, scholastics, grammarians, lexicographers, etc., and collected by Henri de Valois.
Zarmanochegas (Greek: Ζαρμανοχηγάς; according to Strabo [1]) or Zarmarus (according to Dio Cassius [1]) was a gymnosophist (naked philosopher), a monk of the Sramana tradition (possibly, but not necessarily a Buddhist) who, according to ancient historians such as Strabo and Dio Cassius, met Nicholas of Damascus in Antioch in the first years of Augustus' rule over the Roman Empire ...
The cities of Antioch, Daphne and Apamea were almost completely destroyed. Trees were uprooted and felled; people were thrown down to the ground. The Roman emperor Trajan was trapped under the rubble of his home but escaped with minor injuries. [6] An account of the earthquake was included by the writer Cassius Dio in his Roman History. [7]