CARSTEN H. LANGE and JESPER M. MADSEN (EDS), CASSIUS DIO: GREEK INTELLECTUAL AND ROMAN POLITICIAN (Historiography of Rome and Its Empire 1). Leiden: Brill, 2016. Pp. xii + 364. isbn 9789004324169. €148.00/$162.00.
Abstract:speech (1.19-20), because in the nale of Satire 1 he confesses to limiting himself to criticising only the dead. As a result, the satirist fails also as a man insofar as he has been restricted in his autonomous freedom. To N., autonomy is 'the fundamental building block of Roman manhood' (22). In the following chapters, N. analyses various passages dealing with the anxieties of the male elite. Ch. 2 considers rebellious bodies and anxieties over the lack of autonomy (61-92). N. looks at the body as an emblem … Show more
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