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Evighedernes by. Rom, 2019
Rome from Antiquity to the Modern era With Jesper Majbom Madsen & Nils Arne Sørensen, Gads forla... more Rome from Antiquity to the Modern era
With Jesper Majbom Madsen & Nils Arne Sørensen, Gads forlag 2019.
This volume offers an introduction to the life and work of the 3rd-century-AD Greco-Roman senator... more 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 no political agenda behind the work, and that Dio's principal value to us is as a reliable copyist, who mediated the works of other, and better sources.
This introduction to his life and work offers a different picture. Here, Dio is presented through his Greek cultural lens as a politician with a clear vision for how Roman politics and government should be organized. Carefully selected examples will be the starting points for fresh critical analysis of Dio's work and its legacy, both in antiquity and through to the Enlightenment.
The book assumes no familiarity with Cassius Dio, his writing or context. All text will be translated and suggested further reading will point readers towards avenues for more detailed study.
Evighedernes by Rom, 2019
Roms historie i 2000 år. (Kallestrup, Majbom Madsen & Sørensen) Den første bog handler om Rom fra... more Roms historie i 2000 år. (Kallestrup, Majbom Madsen & Sørensen)
Den første bog handler om Rom fra byens grundlæggelse til i dag med vægten på tre markante storhedstider i byens historie: kejsernes Rom (fra kejser Augustus til ca. 300), da pavernes Rom (1450-1650) og det italienske Rom (ca. 1850 til ca. 1950).
Bogen viser bl. a., hvordan Roms magthavere fra Augustus til Mussolini gennem byggeprojekter, monumenter og byplanlægning iscenesatte byen som ”Den evige stad”, og hele tiden refererede til forgængerne. Det er således sigende, at fascisterne kaldte deres Rom for Det tredje Rom – et folkets Rom efter kejsernes og pavernes.
https://gad.dk/evighedernes-by-rom
by Marco Vitale, Jesper Majbom Madsen, Alister Filippini, Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen, Francesco Camia, Lorenzo Cigaina, Hadrien Bru, Denise Reitzenstein, Gabrielle Frija, Barbara Holler, and Julie Dalaison
Contents: 1. Historical introduction: Adatepe and Oymaağaç Höyük, the predecessors of Neoklaudio... more Contents:
1. Historical introduction: Adatepe and Oymaağaç Höyük, the predecessors of Neoklaudiopolis. Mithradates VI Eupator. Pompeius the Great, founder of Vezirköprü. Roman client-kings. The cult of the emperor. From Neapolis to Neoklaudiopolis. Citizens and slaves. City administration. Economic life. The coinage of Neoklaudiopolis. Death and burial. Christianity in Neoklaudiopolis. The Byzantine period and the Danışmends.
2. A walk through ancient Neoklaudiopolis
3. Roads and bridges around Neoklaudiopolis: The ancient road system around Vezirköprü. The road to Thermai (Havza). The road to Pompeiopolis (Taşköprü). The road to Neokaisareia (Niksar). The bridge at Yürükçal.
4. The Imperial oath in Istanbul Archaeological Museum.
5. Chronological table, Glossary, Bibliography
Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series (HRE) by Jesper Majbom Madsen
by Carsten Hjort Lange, Jesper Majbom Madsen, Henning Börm, Johannes Wienand, John Rich, Frederik Juliaan Vervaet, Adam Kemezis, Josiah Osgood, Federico Santangelo, Alain M Gowing, Christopher Smith, Kathryn Welch, Andrew G Scott, and Christopher Mallan
AIM AND SCOPE: Brill’s Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series aims to gather innovative and... more AIM AND SCOPE: Brill’s Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series aims to gather innovative and outstanding contributions in order to identify debates and trends, and in order to help provide a better understanding of ancient historiography, as well as how to approach Roman history and historiography. We would particularly welcome proposals that look at both Roman and Greek writers, but are also happy to look at ones which focus on individual writers, or individuals in the same tradition. It is timely and valuable to bring these trends and historical sources together by founding the Series, focusing mainly on the Republican period and the principate, as well as the Later Roman Empire.
Historical writing about Rome in both Latin and Greek forms an integrated topic. There are two strands in ancient writing about the Romans and their empire: (a) the Romans’ own tradition of histories of the deeds of the Roman people at home and at war, and (b) Greek historical responses, some developing their own models (Polybius, Josephus) and the others building on what both the Roman historians and earlier Greeks had written (Dionysius, Appian, Cassius Dio). Whereas older scholarship tended to privilege a small group of ‘great historians’ (the likes of Sallust, Livy, Tacitus), recent work has rightly brought out the diversity of the traditions and recognized that even ‘minor’ writers are worth exploring not just as sources, but for their own concerns and reinterpretation of their material (such as The Fragments of the Roman Historians (2013), and the collected volumes on Velleius Paterculus (Cowan 2011) and Appian (Welch 2015)). The study of these historiographical traditions is essential as a counterbalance to the traditional use of ancient authors as a handy resource, with scholars looking at isolated sections of their structure. This fragmentary use of the ancient evidence makes us forget to reflect on their work in its textual and contextual entirety.
Papers by Jesper Majbom Madsen
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Evighedernes by. Rom, 2019
Rome from Antiquity to the Modern era With Jesper Majbom Madsen & Nils Arne Sørensen, Gads forla... more Rome from Antiquity to the Modern era
With Jesper Majbom Madsen & Nils Arne Sørensen, Gads forlag 2019.
This volume offers an introduction to the life and work of the 3rd-century-AD Greco-Roman senator... more 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 no political agenda behind the work, and that Dio's principal value to us is as a reliable copyist, who mediated the works of other, and better sources.
This introduction to his life and work offers a different picture. Here, Dio is presented through his Greek cultural lens as a politician with a clear vision for how Roman politics and government should be organized. Carefully selected examples will be the starting points for fresh critical analysis of Dio's work and its legacy, both in antiquity and through to the Enlightenment.
The book assumes no familiarity with Cassius Dio, his writing or context. All text will be translated and suggested further reading will point readers towards avenues for more detailed study.
Evighedernes by Rom, 2019
Roms historie i 2000 år. (Kallestrup, Majbom Madsen & Sørensen) Den første bog handler om Rom fra... more Roms historie i 2000 år. (Kallestrup, Majbom Madsen & Sørensen)
Den første bog handler om Rom fra byens grundlæggelse til i dag med vægten på tre markante storhedstider i byens historie: kejsernes Rom (fra kejser Augustus til ca. 300), da pavernes Rom (1450-1650) og det italienske Rom (ca. 1850 til ca. 1950).
Bogen viser bl. a., hvordan Roms magthavere fra Augustus til Mussolini gennem byggeprojekter, monumenter og byplanlægning iscenesatte byen som ”Den evige stad”, og hele tiden refererede til forgængerne. Det er således sigende, at fascisterne kaldte deres Rom for Det tredje Rom – et folkets Rom efter kejsernes og pavernes.
https://gad.dk/evighedernes-by-rom
by Marco Vitale, Jesper Majbom Madsen, Alister Filippini, Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen, Francesco Camia, Lorenzo Cigaina, Hadrien Bru, Denise Reitzenstein, Gabrielle Frija, Barbara Holler, and Julie Dalaison
Contents: 1. Historical introduction: Adatepe and Oymaağaç Höyük, the predecessors of Neoklaudio... more Contents:
1. Historical introduction: Adatepe and Oymaağaç Höyük, the predecessors of Neoklaudiopolis. Mithradates VI Eupator. Pompeius the Great, founder of Vezirköprü. Roman client-kings. The cult of the emperor. From Neapolis to Neoklaudiopolis. Citizens and slaves. City administration. Economic life. The coinage of Neoklaudiopolis. Death and burial. Christianity in Neoklaudiopolis. The Byzantine period and the Danışmends.
2. A walk through ancient Neoklaudiopolis
3. Roads and bridges around Neoklaudiopolis: The ancient road system around Vezirköprü. The road to Thermai (Havza). The road to Pompeiopolis (Taşköprü). The road to Neokaisareia (Niksar). The bridge at Yürükçal.
4. The Imperial oath in Istanbul Archaeological Museum.
5. Chronological table, Glossary, Bibliography
by Carsten Hjort Lange, Jesper Majbom Madsen, Henning Börm, Johannes Wienand, John Rich, Frederik Juliaan Vervaet, Adam Kemezis, Josiah Osgood, Federico Santangelo, Alain M Gowing, Christopher Smith, Kathryn Welch, Andrew G Scott, and Christopher Mallan
AIM AND SCOPE: Brill’s Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series aims to gather innovative and... more AIM AND SCOPE: Brill’s Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series aims to gather innovative and outstanding contributions in order to identify debates and trends, and in order to help provide a better understanding of ancient historiography, as well as how to approach Roman history and historiography. We would particularly welcome proposals that look at both Roman and Greek writers, but are also happy to look at ones which focus on individual writers, or individuals in the same tradition. It is timely and valuable to bring these trends and historical sources together by founding the Series, focusing mainly on the Republican period and the principate, as well as the Later Roman Empire.
Historical writing about Rome in both Latin and Greek forms an integrated topic. There are two strands in ancient writing about the Romans and their empire: (a) the Romans’ own tradition of histories of the deeds of the Roman people at home and at war, and (b) Greek historical responses, some developing their own models (Polybius, Josephus) and the others building on what both the Roman historians and earlier Greeks had written (Dionysius, Appian, Cassius Dio). Whereas older scholarship tended to privilege a small group of ‘great historians’ (the likes of Sallust, Livy, Tacitus), recent work has rightly brought out the diversity of the traditions and recognized that even ‘minor’ writers are worth exploring not just as sources, but for their own concerns and reinterpretation of their material (such as The Fragments of the Roman Historians (2013), and the collected volumes on Velleius Paterculus (Cowan 2011) and Appian (Welch 2015)). The study of these historiographical traditions is essential as a counterbalance to the traditional use of ancient authors as a handy resource, with scholars looking at isolated sections of their structure. This fragmentary use of the ancient evidence makes us forget to reflect on their work in its textual and contextual entirety.
BRILL eBooks, Feb 24, 2023
BRILL eBooks, May 12, 2021
Rome and the Black Sea Region
Lexis Supplements, 2020
In Cassius Dio’s account of imperial Rome, the Flavian Dynasty represents all the strengths and w... more In Cassius Dio’s account of imperial Rome, the Flavian Dynasty represents all the strengths and weaknesses of monarchical rule. The strength is represented with Vespasian, his display of modesty and understanding of the need to cooperate and share power with the senatorial elite. The weakness is described through the nepotism, betrayal, and uncontrolled ambition for glory and prestige that helped Domitian to power and forced the return of tyrannical rule upon the Romans. In this chapter, I shall discuss the way in which the Flavian narrative serves as a microcosm in the Roman History to demonstrate the reason for which dynastic succession was incapable of providing the stability needed for monarchical rule to reach its full constitutional and political potential.
The Historiography of Late Republican Civil War, 2019
Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician, 2016
Brandon Jones contribution to this volume in particular gives a good overview in which Cassius Di... more 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. His attitude to the sophists and to centres of sophistic activity in the Greek East seems to me very often
Open call for an international conference to be put on by the Cassius Dio Network on 24-26 May 20... more Open call for an international conference to be put on by the Cassius Dio Network on 24-26 May 2018 in Banff, Canada
In the imperial books Cassius Dio focuses on individual emperors and dynasties to develop a theor... more In the imperial books Cassius Dio focuses on individual emperors and dynasties to develop a theory of the best kind of monarchy and of monarchy's typical problems. One result is that his work does not present itself as exclusively annalistic in nature, but as a series of imperial biographies, beginning with the dynasts of the Republic. This introduces a tension into his narrative structure, which creates a unique sense of the past and allows us to see Roman history through a specific lens.
This in-house Network event will address the political institutions and the government of the Principate, including its honour-system, as well as the different ruling family dynasties; it will focus on how these institutions make Cassius Dio reflect on periods of prosperity and decline. Through Cassius Dio's distinctive interpretation of these issues it is possible to examine the underlying structural elements of imperial society, the individuality of emperors, and the relationship between institutions and individuals.
Cassius Dio occupies a central position in Roman historiography. He is the only historian who fol... more Cassius Dio occupies a central position in Roman historiography. He is the only historian who follows the developments of Rome's political institutions over more than a thousand years. His 80‐ book Roman History narrates events from the foundation of Rome to circa 229 CE. This makes him an indispensable source for Rome's history, particularly in the Late Republic, the reign of Augustus, and the second and third centuries CE, until 229 CE, when he retired from Roman politics. Traditionally, work on Dio has focused on one or several contiguous books. Contrary to this approach, the whole text should be considered in order to understand Dio's approaches to and assessments of different time‐periods; he is not just simply a writer of narrative history. This panel will focus on turning‐points/transformations in Dio's narrative: emphasis will be placed on Dio and his Roman History in its historiographical setting, thus allowing us to link and understand the different parts of his work. We propose that Dio had a political agenda...
The aim of the conference is to focus on Cassius Dio as a historian – the only historian who allo... more The aim of the conference is to focus on Cassius Dio as a historian – the only historian who allows us to follow the developments of Rome's political institutions during a more than thousand year period, from the foundation of the city to Dio's retirement from public life in 229 CE. We propose to explore Dio's methodology and agendas, all of which influenced his approaches to Rome's history. The aim is a reassessment that will rest on a deeper study of his narrative technique, his relationship with traditions of universal and more Rome-based historiography, and his structural approach to Roman history. One question that will be raised is as follows: can we find common principles for how to use Dio as a source for different periods, events and individuals? What are our main approaches? Most frequently Cassius Dio is used as a handy resource, with scholars looking at isolated sections of his annalistic structure. This piecemeal use of The Roman History makes us forget to reflect on his work in its textual and contextual entirety. Contrary to this approach, we will put emphasis on Cassius Dio and his Roman History in its historiographical setting, thus allowing us to link and understand the different parts of his work. We thus propose to accept that Cassius Dio was a figure in his own right and with his own agendas for writing The Roman History, at the same...
Proposals for 30 minutes papers now accepted.
