Peter Michael Swan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5659976 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Michael Swan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Swan |
| SIGNATURE | SWAN P M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Augustan Succession: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio’s Roman History Books 55-56 (9 B.C.-A.D. 14)
This is an historical commentary on Books 55-56 of Dio’s Roman History. These books recount the last half of the reign of the Emperor Augustus, above all his orchestration of the first imperial succession. Addressed to both students and scholars, the new commentary is the first since the eighteenth century to offer full and fresh treatment of this segment of Dio’s work
How Cassius Dio Composed his Augustan Books: Four Studies
How Cassius Dio Composed his Augustan Books: Four Studies was published in Band 34/3. Teilband Sprache und Literatur. Einzelne Autoren seit der hadrianischen Zeit und Allgemeines zur Literatur des 2. und 3. Jahrhunderts (Forts.) on page 2524
Dion Cassius, "Histoire Romaine", Livres 57-59 (Tibere-Caligula)
Cassius Dio: The Augustan Settlement (Roman History 53-55.9)
Cassius Dio on Augustus: A Poverty of Annalistic Sources
WHEN MOUNT VESUVIUS ERUPTED, portending the downfall of the great Plautianus in 205, the roaring volcano could be heard in Capua-some twenty miles away. So Dio tells us. possessed this special knowledge because he had chosen Capua for retreat so that whenever he was in Italy and free from affairs in Rome he could work uninterrupted on Roman History (76.2.1-2). To make provision for studious quiet was the mark of serious historian. So was the deca…
Cassius Dio on the Suffect Consuls of A. D. 39
A Consular Epicurean under the Early Principate
AI HAVE DESERTED to camp of my enemy Epicurus (Cic. Farm. 9.20.1). Cicero wrote in jest: no one could doubt his immunity to inlecebrae voluptatis. Still there were earnest converts to Epicureanism among his peers, for example L. Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (cos. 58) and C. Vibius Pansa (cos. 43);1 and he made C. Cassius and C. Trebatius Testa butt of persiflage for defecting from virtus to voluptas.2 But heyday of Epicureanism, at least as a faith…
Cassius Dio on Augustus: A Poverty of Annalistic Sources
WHEN MOUNT VESUVIUS ERUPTED, portending the downfall of the great Plautianus in 205, the roaring volcano could be heard in Capua-some twenty miles away. So Dio tells us. possessed this special knowledge because he had chosen Capua for retreat so that whenever he was in Italy and free from affairs in Rome he could work uninterrupted on Roman History (76.2.1-2). To make provision for studious quiet was the mark of serious historian. So was the deca…
The Augustan Succession: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio’s Roman History Books 55-56 (9 B.C.-A.D. 14)
This is an historical commentary on Books 55-56 of Dio’s Roman History. These books recount the last half of the reign of the Emperor Augustus, above all his orchestration of the first imperial succession. Addressed to both students and scholars, the new commentary is the first since the eighteenth century to offer full and fresh treatment of this segment of Dio’s work
A Consular Epicurean under the Early Principate
AI HAVE DESERTED to camp of my enemy Epicurus (Cic. Farm. 9.20.1). Cicero wrote in jest: no one could doubt his immunity to inlecebrae voluptatis. Still there were earnest converts to Epicureanism among his peers, for example L. Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (cos. 58) and C. Vibius Pansa (cos. 43);1 and he made C. Cassius and C. Trebatius Testa butt of persiflage for defecting from virtus to voluptas.2 But heyday of Epicureanism, at least as a faith…
A Consular Epicurean under the Early Principate
AI HAVE DESERTED to camp of my enemy Epicurus (Cic. Farm. 9.20.1). Cicero wrote in jest: no one could doubt his immunity to inlecebrae voluptatis. Still there were earnest converts to Epicureanism among his peers, for example L. Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (cos. 58) and C. Vibius Pansa (cos. 43);1 and he made C. Cassius and C. Trebatius Testa butt of persiflage for defecting from virtus to voluptas.2 But heyday of Epicureanism, at least as a faith…
Cassius Dio on the Suffect Consuls of A. D. 39
Cassius Dio on Augustus: A Poverty of Annalistic Sources
WHEN MOUNT VESUVIUS ERUPTED, portending the downfall of the great Plautianus in 205, the roaring volcano could be heard in Capua-some twenty miles away. So Dio tells us. possessed this special knowledge because he had chosen Capua for retreat so that whenever he was in Italy and free from affairs in Rome he could work uninterrupted on Roman History (76.2.1-2). To make provision for studious quiet was the mark of serious historian. So was the deca…
Cassius Dio: The Augustan Settlement (Roman History 53-55.9)
Dion Cassius, "Histoire Romaine", Livres 57-59 (Tibere-Caligula)
How Cassius Dio Composed his Augustan Books: Four Studies
How Cassius Dio Composed his Augustan Books: Four Studies was published in Band 34/3. Teilband Sprache und Literatur. Einzelne Autoren seit der hadrianischen Zeit und Allgemeines zur Literatur des 2. und 3. Jahrhunderts (Forts.) on page 2524
The Augustan Succession: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio’s Roman History Books 55-56 (9 B.C.-A.D. 14)
This is an historical commentary on Books 55-56 of Dio’s Roman History. These books recount the last half of the reign of the Emperor Augustus, above all his orchestration of the first imperial succession. Addressed to both students and scholars, the new commentary is the first since the eighteenth century to offer full and fresh treatment of this segment of Dio’s work
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