Home / Authors / Cassius Dio

Author

Cassius Dio

155–235

1 non-fiction

Cassius Dio was a Roman senator and Greek historian whose Roman History is a major source for the Republic and Empire.

Cassius Dio wrote in Greek and served in high Roman office. His Roman History ran from Rome’s foundation to his own age, with especially important surviving sections on the late Republic, Augustus, the Julio-Claudians and later imperial politics.

For the site, Dio belongs in Classical for pages on Roman political history, civil war, imperial succession and senatorial interpretation of power. He is particularly important where other sources are fragmentary or hostile.

Periods and events

Imperial Rome27 BCE–476 CE Late Roman Republic133–27 BCE

Non-fiction

Non-fiction by Cassius Dio (1 book)

Reference works, biographies and other non-fiction are kept separate from the historical fiction above.

The Roman History: Reign of Augustus

by Cassius Dio

4.6(127)

Similar authors

Recommended from shared genres and periods.

Plutarch

Classical historical writing centred on Late Roman Republic and the Roman Republic

Appian

Classical historical writing centred on Late Roman Republic and the Roman Republic

Livy

Classical historical writing centred on Classical Historiography and the Roman Republic

Josephus

Classical historical writing centred on Classical Historiography and Ancient Rome

Mary Beard

Historical scholarship focused on Classical Historiography and the Roman Republic