The Loeb Classical Library: Roman History, Volume II : Books 12–35

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The Loeb Classical Library: Roman History, Volume II : Books 12–35A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus. Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and under the emperor Commodus was an advocate. He held high offices, becoming a close friend of several emperors; he was made governor of Pergamum and Smyrna; consul in 220; proconsul of Africa; governor of

but they are found in their purest form in oratory

the longest of the Philippics (so-called after a series of speeches made against Philip of Macedon)

δύο όψεις του ίδιου νομίσματος

The stories of the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece are sprawling

The Persian Expedition

Greek Tragedy

While he lived

The play deals with a perennial domestic problem - how fathers should relate to teenage children - and raises the wider question of ends and means in education

Η επιτυχία και ο βαθύς έρωτας

Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus are assessed and a brief concluding chapter draws together what has been said in the seven studies

The scandalous Satire 9 returns to the theme of patronage in a superbly acid dialogue with a certain Naevolus who has served his patron sexually and who now complains of the poor returns for his extensive and energetic labours

sex in society and the sublimation of basic human instincts

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