Jesper Majbom Madsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5626907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jesper Majbom Madsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jesper Majbom |
| FAMILY NAME | Madsen |
| SIGNATURE | MADSEN J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Instytut Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów Polskiej Akademii Nauk |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0997-2730 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Thousand Years of Roman History
In the third century, the historian Cassius Dio wrote a work covering the history of Rome from the moment Aeneas’ arrival in Italy in the mythical past to the year 229 ce when Dio, after a long life in politics and a successful career in the imperial administration, retired to Nicaea in western Asia Minor. Judging from what has survived of his Roman History, Dio’s overall focus was the history of Rome and the Roman Empire. Other empires, like the…
The Almost Flawless Princeps
Ch. 7. Autopsy from a Broken Monarchy
Cassius Dio’s contemporary books are often held to be for historians a particularly useful part of his Roman History. As a senator in Rome, Dio was well placed to describe what he saw during a long career in Roman politics. Dio’s eyewitness reports bring us right into the middle of the action but his own personal investment in the affairs raise the question of reliability and accuracy. In this article I read Dio’s contemporary books as a trauma-b…
Brill’s Companion to Cassius Dio
This Companion is the first of its kind on the Roman historian Cassius Dio. It introduces the reader to the life and work of one of the most fundamental but previously neglected historians in the Roman historical canon. Together the eighteen chapters focus on Cassius Dio's background as Graeco-Roman intellectual from Bithynia who worked his way up the political hierarchy in Rome and analyses his Roman History as the product of a politically engag…
Between Eyewitness Reports and the Writing of History
Cassius Dio the Historian
This chapter surveys the speeches of Cassius Dio’s Roman History up to the Augustan Settlement in Book 53. It shows that the historian’s approach to the composition and arrangement of his speeches was highly varied. Beginning with an overview of the historian’s sources, it argues that Dio had four primary methods in the composition of his speeches, drawing to varying degrees from pre-existing written versions. Then, turning to the distribution an…
From Trophy Towns to City-States
In 66 BCE, in the woods of Armenia Minor, Pompey the Great defeated Mithridates VI Eupator, making him one of the most successful Roman generals of all time. The victory presented him with the enormous challenge of organizing not only Mithridates' kingdom but also large parts of Anatolia and the Near East that were now placed under Roman rule. Pompey's solution was to found six new cities and to convert two existing communities, Zela, a temple co…
Cassius Dio
This volume offers an introduction to the life and work of the 3rd-century-AD Greco-Roman senator and historian Cassius Dio, whose work, although imperfectly preserved in 80 books, is of fundamental importance to our understanding of Roman history. It is said that Dio is not one of the best ancient historians and his Roman history, due to its sheer size, is often imprecise and superficial in its analysis. It has also been assumed that there was n…
Xenophon
This book offers a concise introduction to Xenophon, the Athenian historian, political thinker, moral philosopher and literary innovator who was also a pupil of Socrates, a military general on campaign in Persia, and an exile in residence in the Peloponnese during the late fifth and fourth centuries BC. Alive during one of the most turbulent periods in Greek history, Xenophon wrote extensively about the past and present. In doing so he not only i…
Cassius Dio and the Principate
In the Imperial books of his Roman History , Cassius Dio focuses on individual emperors and imperial institutions to promote a political framework for the ideal monarchy, and to theorise autocracy’s typical problems and their solutions. The distinctive narrative structure of Dio’s work creates a unique sense of the past and allows us to see Roman history through a specific lens: that of a man who witnessed the Principate from the Antonines to the…
In the Shadow of Civil War
Like Father Like Son
Local Roman Women in Pontus and Bithynia
Cet article traite de la manière dont certaines femmes du Pont et de Bithynie apparaissent pourvues de noms romains, imitant même parfois les tria nomina , dans les inscriptions honorifiques et funéraires qui sont dédiées à elles-mêmes ou à leurs fils, pères et époux. Il a souvent été avancé que les Grecs avaient montré quelque réticence, voire quelque scepticisme, envers l’influence de la culture romaine, et que les habitants des communautés pro…
From Nobles to Villains
Intellectual Resistance to Roman Hegemony and its Representativity
Looking in from the outside
This chapter presents Strabo's perception of Rome, Roman culture and Roman power in general. It focuses on how Strabo, and probably other intellectuals of Greek origin, perceived not only Rome but also the relationship between themselves, the Greek-speaking population of the Empire, and their Roman rulers. When Strabo first travelled to Rome in 44 BCE, he may have been a Roman citizen and so would have enjoyed the same legal rights as all other R…
Preliminary Material
Between History and Politics
Index
Criticising the Benefactors
This chapter focuses on Dio’s critique of the Severan dynasty and on dynastic rule in general. The negative portrayal of the emperors of Dio’s own lifetime is here read as a frustration over how the rule of a new dynasty had replaced the practice of electing the next emperor through adoption among established members of the Senate, who had already proven their administrative and military skills. Even if the notion of how the adoptive emperors ope…
Cassius Dio and the Cult of Ivlivs and Roma at Ephesus and Nicaea (51.20.6-8)
This paper considers Cassius Dio's account of the early worship of Augustus. Its main focus is the number of cults consecrated to the worship of Rome's new undisputed leader and his father, the now deceased and deified Divus Iulius, after the triumvir, on his way back from Alexandria in 29 b.c.e. , wintered in Asia Minor. In his account of how the first official worship of Augustus was organized, Dio describes how Augustus let two separate cults …
Cassius Dio
6 Brandon Jones contribution to this volume in particular gives a good overview in which Cassius Dio may be considered a member of a 'sophistic' intellectual climate
Introduction
This introductory chapter of this book on Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing gives overview on the various aspects discussed in the book. The book gathers chapters on a variety of authors, across several literary prose genres and documentary texts, and through this spectrum, makes possible a comparison of educated Greek and Latin views of Roman power (in various manifestations, including military, religion, law and politics). This comparison p…
Roman rule in Greek and Latin Writing
Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing explores the ways in which Greek and Latin writers from the late 1st to the 3rd century CE experienced and portrayed Roman cultural institutions and power. The central theme is the relationship between cultures as reflected in Greek and Latin authors’ responses to Roman power; in practice the collection revisits the orthodoxy of two separate intellectual groups, differentiated as much by cultural and politica…
The Provincialisation of Rome
The course of this development and how the admission to the Senate of the provincial elite influenced the concept of Roman imperialism is the subject of the present chapter. A key question to be addressed here is how men of provincial background perceived and enforced Roman rule in their allocated provinces. Senators, which we now hold to be of the highest antiquity, were once new. Secondly, and perhaps less glorious, it was better to have the ne…
Cassius Dio
6 Brandon Jones contribution to this volume in particular gives a good overview in which Cassius Dio may be considered a member of a 'sophistic' intellectual climate
Roman rule in Greek and Latin Writing
Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing explores the ways in which Greek and Latin writers from the late 1st to the 3rd century CE experienced and portrayed Roman cultural institutions and power. The central theme is the relationship between cultures as reflected in Greek and Latin authors’ responses to Roman power; in practice the collection revisits the orthodoxy of two separate intellectual groups, differentiated as much by cultural and politica…
Cassius Dio the Historian
This chapter surveys the speeches of Cassius Dio’s Roman History up to the Augustan Settlement in Book 53. It shows that the historian’s approach to the composition and arrangement of his speeches was highly varied. Beginning with an overview of the historian’s sources, it argues that Dio had four primary methods in the composition of his speeches, drawing to varying degrees from pre-existing written versions. Then, turning to the distribution an…
Cassius Dio and the Principate
In the Imperial books of his Roman History , Cassius Dio focuses on individual emperors and imperial institutions to promote a political framework for the ideal monarchy, and to theorise autocracy’s typical problems and their solutions. The distinctive narrative structure of Dio’s work creates a unique sense of the past and allows us to see Roman history through a specific lens: that of a man who witnessed the Principate from the Antonines to the…
Brill’s Companion to Cassius Dio
This Companion is the first of its kind on the Roman historian Cassius Dio. It introduces the reader to the life and work of one of the most fundamental but previously neglected historians in the Roman historical canon. Together the eighteen chapters focus on Cassius Dio's background as Graeco-Roman intellectual from Bithynia who worked his way up the political hierarchy in Rome and analyses his Roman History as the product of a politically engag…
Cassius Dio and the Cult of Ivlivs and Roma at Ephesus and Nicaea (51.20.6-8)
This paper considers Cassius Dio's account of the early worship of Augustus. Its main focus is the number of cults consecrated to the worship of Rome's new undisputed leader and his father, the now deceased and deified Divus Iulius, after the triumvir, on his way back from Alexandria in 29 b.c.e. , wintered in Asia Minor. In his account of how the first official worship of Augustus was organized, Dio describes how Augustus let two separate cults …
The Provincialisation of Rome
The course of this development and how the admission to the Senate of the provincial elite influenced the concept of Roman imperialism is the subject of the present chapter. A key question to be addressed here is how men of provincial background perceived and enforced Roman rule in their allocated provinces. Senators, which we now hold to be of the highest antiquity, were once new. Secondly, and perhaps less glorious, it was better to have the ne…
Introduction
This introductory chapter of this book on Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing gives overview on the various aspects discussed in the book. The book gathers chapters on a variety of authors, across several literary prose genres and documentary texts, and through this spectrum, makes possible a comparison of educated Greek and Latin views of Roman power (in various manifestations, including military, religion, law and politics). This comparison p…
Roman rule in Greek and Latin Writing
Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing explores the ways in which Greek and Latin writers from the late 1st to the 3rd century CE experienced and portrayed Roman cultural institutions and power. The central theme is the relationship between cultures as reflected in Greek and Latin authors’ responses to Roman power; in practice the collection revisits the orthodoxy of two separate intellectual groups, differentiated as much by cultural and politica…
Preliminary Material
Between History and Politics
Index
Criticising the Benefactors
This chapter focuses on Dio’s critique of the Severan dynasty and on dynastic rule in general. The negative portrayal of the emperors of Dio’s own lifetime is here read as a frustration over how the rule of a new dynasty had replaced the practice of electing the next emperor through adoption among established members of the Senate, who had already proven their administrative and military skills. Even if the notion of how the adoptive emperors ope…
Cassius Dio and the Cult of Ivlivs and Roma at Ephesus and Nicaea (51.20.6-8)
This paper considers Cassius Dio's account of the early worship of Augustus. Its main focus is the number of cults consecrated to the worship of Rome's new undisputed leader and his father, the now deceased and deified Divus Iulius, after the triumvir, on his way back from Alexandria in 29 b.c.e. , wintered in Asia Minor. In his account of how the first official worship of Augustus was organized, Dio describes how Augustus let two separate cults …
Cassius Dio
6 Brandon Jones contribution to this volume in particular gives a good overview in which Cassius Dio may be considered a member of a 'sophistic' intellectual climate
Looking in from the outside
This chapter presents Strabo's perception of Rome, Roman culture and Roman power in general. It focuses on how Strabo, and probably other intellectuals of Greek origin, perceived not only Rome but also the relationship between themselves, the Greek-speaking population of the Empire, and their Roman rulers. When Strabo first travelled to Rome in 44 BCE, he may have been a Roman citizen and so would have enjoyed the same legal rights as all other R…
From Nobles to Villains
Intellectual Resistance to Roman Hegemony and its Representativity
In the Shadow of Civil War
Like Father Like Son
Local Roman Women in Pontus and Bithynia
Cet article traite de la manière dont certaines femmes du Pont et de Bithynie apparaissent pourvues de noms romains, imitant même parfois les tria nomina , dans les inscriptions honorifiques et funéraires qui sont dédiées à elles-mêmes ou à leurs fils, pères et époux. Il a souvent été avancé que les Grecs avaient montré quelque réticence, voire quelque scepticisme, envers l’influence de la culture romaine, et que les habitants des communautés pro…
From Trophy Towns to City-States
In 66 BCE, in the woods of Armenia Minor, Pompey the Great defeated Mithridates VI Eupator, making him one of the most successful Roman generals of all time. The victory presented him with the enormous challenge of organizing not only Mithridates' kingdom but also large parts of Anatolia and the Near East that were now placed under Roman rule. Pompey's solution was to found six new cities and to convert two existing communities, Zela, a temple co…
Cassius Dio
This volume offers an introduction to the life and work of the 3rd-century-AD Greco-Roman senator and historian Cassius Dio, whose work, although imperfectly preserved in 80 books, is of fundamental importance to our understanding of Roman history. It is said that Dio is not one of the best ancient historians and his Roman history, due to its sheer size, is often imprecise and superficial in its analysis. It has also been assumed that there was n…
Xenophon
This book offers a concise introduction to Xenophon, the Athenian historian, political thinker, moral philosopher and literary innovator who was also a pupil of Socrates, a military general on campaign in Persia, and an exile in residence in the Peloponnese during the late fifth and fourth centuries BC. Alive during one of the most turbulent periods in Greek history, Xenophon wrote extensively about the past and present. In doing so he not only i…
Cassius Dio and the Principate
In the Imperial books of his Roman History , Cassius Dio focuses on individual emperors and imperial institutions to promote a political framework for the ideal monarchy, and to theorise autocracy’s typical problems and their solutions. The distinctive narrative structure of Dio’s work creates a unique sense of the past and allows us to see Roman history through a specific lens: that of a man who witnessed the Principate from the Antonines to the…
Between Eyewitness Reports and the Writing of History
Cassius Dio the Historian
This chapter surveys the speeches of Cassius Dio’s Roman History up to the Augustan Settlement in Book 53. It shows that the historian’s approach to the composition and arrangement of his speeches was highly varied. Beginning with an overview of the historian’s sources, it argues that Dio had four primary methods in the composition of his speeches, drawing to varying degrees from pre-existing written versions. Then, turning to the distribution an…
The Almost Flawless Princeps
Ch. 7. Autopsy from a Broken Monarchy
Cassius Dio’s contemporary books are often held to be for historians a particularly useful part of his Roman History. As a senator in Rome, Dio was well placed to describe what he saw during a long career in Roman politics. Dio’s eyewitness reports bring us right into the middle of the action but his own personal investment in the affairs raise the question of reliability and accuracy. In this article I read Dio’s contemporary books as a trauma-b…
Brill’s Companion to Cassius Dio
This Companion is the first of its kind on the Roman historian Cassius Dio. It introduces the reader to the life and work of one of the most fundamental but previously neglected historians in the Roman historical canon. Together the eighteen chapters focus on Cassius Dio's background as Graeco-Roman intellectual from Bithynia who worked his way up the political hierarchy in Rome and analyses his Roman History as the product of a politically engag…
A Thousand Years of Roman History
In the third century, the historian Cassius Dio wrote a work covering the history of Rome from the moment Aeneas’ arrival in Italy in the mythical past to the year 229 ce when Dio, after a long life in politics and a successful career in the imperial administration, retired to Nicaea in western Asia Minor. Judging from what has survived of his Roman History, Dio’s overall focus was the history of Rome and the Roman Empire. Other empires, like the…
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