Christopher Burden-Strevens
Biographic Data
| ID | 5634593 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Burden-Strevens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Burden-Strevens |
| SIGNATURE | BURDEN-STREVENS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Agrippa-Maecenas Debate
Leadership and Initiative in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome
What does it mean to be a leader? This collection of seventeen studies breaks new ground in our understanding of leadership in ancient Rome by re-evaluating the difference between those who began a political action and those who followed or reacted. In a significant change of approach, this volume shifts the focus from archetypal “leaders” to explore the potential for individuals of different ranks, social statuses, ages, and genders to seize ini…
Oratory
Institutions & Empire
Epilogue
Morality
Method
Speeches in History
his collection of chapters offers a number of important surveys of anthologies of historiographical speeches: that is, mainly, collections of notable and exemplary discourses in ancient and early modern historiographical works, compiled at a later time as models for study or entertainment.The scope of the collection is certainly impressive: its nineteen chapters, organised into three parts (I: Antiquity; II: Byzantium and the Middle Ages; III: Ea…
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…
Cassius Dio's Speeches and the Collapse of the Roman Republic
This thesis argues that Cassius Dio used his speeches of his Late Republican and Augustan narratives as a means of historical explanation. I suggest that the interpretative framework which the historian applied to the causes and success of constitutional change can be most clearly identified in the speeches. The discussion is divided into eight chapters over two sections. Chapter 1 (Introduction) sets out the historical, paideutic, and compositio…
Cassius Dio’s Forgotten History of Early Rome
In a radical change of approach, Cassius Dio’s Forgotten History of Early Rome illuminates the least explored and understood part of Cassius Dio’s enormous Roman History: the first two decads, which span over half a millennium of history and constitute a quarter of Dio’s work. Combining literary and historiographical perspectives with source-criticism and textual analysis for the first time in the study of Dio’s early books, this collection of ch…
Fictitious Speeches, Envy, and the Habituation to Authority
In this paper, I explore Cassius Dio’s use of his speeches as a means of historical explanation. From an analysis of several speeches of the Late Republic and how they are consonant with the narrative material surrounding them, I argue that Dio made these compositions consistent with a causal framework that he applied to the decline of the res publica. This framework appears to be distinctively the historian’s own. These compositions, I suggest, …
‘Ein völlig romanisierter Mann’? Identity, Identification, and Integration in the Roman History of Cassius Dio and in Arrian
Book numbers and translations are those of Cary's 1914-1927 LCL edition.I am grateful to
Cassius Dio's Speeches and the Collapse of the Roman Republic
This thesis argues that Cassius Dio used his speeches of his Late Republican and Augustan narratives as a means of historical explanation. I suggest that the interpretative framework which the historian applied to the causes and success of constitutional change can be most clearly identified in the speeches. The discussion is divided into eight chapters over two sections. Chapter 1 (Introduction) sets out the historical, paideutic, and compositio…
Cassius Dio’s Forgotten History of Early Rome
In a radical change of approach, Cassius Dio’s Forgotten History of Early Rome illuminates the least explored and understood part of Cassius Dio’s enormous Roman History: the first two decads, which span over half a millennium of history and constitute a quarter of Dio’s work. Combining literary and historiographical perspectives with source-criticism and textual analysis for the first time in the study of Dio’s early books, this collection of ch…
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…
‘Ein völlig romanisierter Mann’? Identity, Identification, and Integration in the Roman History of Cassius Dio and in Arrian
Book numbers and translations are those of Cary's 1914-1927 LCL edition.I am grateful to
Fictitious Speeches, Envy, and the Habituation to Authority
In this paper, I explore Cassius Dio’s use of his speeches as a means of historical explanation. From an analysis of several speeches of the Late Republic and how they are consonant with the narrative material surrounding them, I argue that Dio made these compositions consistent with a causal framework that he applied to the decline of the res publica. This framework appears to be distinctively the historian’s own. These compositions, I suggest, …
Cassius Dio’s Forgotten History of Early Rome
In a radical change of approach, Cassius Dio’s Forgotten History of Early Rome illuminates the least explored and understood part of Cassius Dio’s enormous Roman History: the first two decads, which span over half a millennium of history and constitute a quarter of Dio’s work. Combining literary and historiographical perspectives with source-criticism and textual analysis for the first time in the study of Dio’s early books, this collection of ch…
Oratory
Institutions & Empire
Epilogue
Morality
Method
Speeches in History
his collection of chapters offers a number of important surveys of anthologies of historiographical speeches: that is, mainly, collections of notable and exemplary discourses in ancient and early modern historiographical works, compiled at a later time as models for study or entertainment.The scope of the collection is certainly impressive: its nineteen chapters, organised into three parts (I: Antiquity; II: Byzantium and the Middle Ages; III: Ea…
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…
Cassius Dio's Speeches and the Collapse of the Roman Republic
This thesis argues that Cassius Dio used his speeches of his Late Republican and Augustan narratives as a means of historical explanation. I suggest that the interpretative framework which the historian applied to the causes and success of constitutional change can be most clearly identified in the speeches. The discussion is divided into eight chapters over two sections. Chapter 1 (Introduction) sets out the historical, paideutic, and compositio…
Leadership and Initiative in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome
What does it mean to be a leader? This collection of seventeen studies breaks new ground in our understanding of leadership in ancient Rome by re-evaluating the difference between those who began a political action and those who followed or reacted. In a significant change of approach, this volume shifts the focus from archetypal “leaders” to explore the potential for individuals of different ranks, social statuses, ages, and genders to seize ini…
The Agrippa-Maecenas Debate
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