Dio's Rome, Volume 3
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers with a foundation in Roman history who want to read classical historians firsthand
- History students using it as supplementary material for source reading and textual analysis
- History enthusiasts who like annalistic narrative and are interested in political and military detail
- People who need classical historical material for writing or translation practice
Not a good fit for
- Readers with no background in Roman history who need an introductory general history
- Researchers expecting modern scholarly annotations and historiographical criticism
- Readers who prefer light, story-driven history and have little tolerance for annalistic narrative
Reading tips
- Read a concise general history from the late Republic to the early Empire before entering this volume's narrative.
- Use maps and chronological tables to clarify the timeline of people, offices, and events.
- Note Dio's narrative standpoint and choices, reading it as historical source material rather than settled fact.
- Read in sections and take notes on people and events to avoid confusion in a long annalistic narrative.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Cassius Dio Cocceianus, also known as Dio Cassius, was a Roman statesman and historian of Greek descent on his mother's side, born in Nicaea in Bithynia. He served as a senator, held the consulship twice, around 205 and in 229, and governed Africa and Pannonia. Writing in Greek, he composed the eighty-book Roman History, covering the period from Aeneas' arrival in Italy down to 229 CE; it is an important source for the late Republic and early Empire. Six of his works are held in the collection, mostly volume editions of the Roman History, showing its continued transmission. Public information on his life is limited, and readers may best appreciate this universal history as a systematic ancient account of political change and imperial rise and fall.
