We will comment here upon some interesting elements of the narrative of the revolt itself, as we have analysed separately the first sentence of the text presented here, which mentions the foundation of the colony of Aelia Capitolina and the construction of the temple of Jupiter (see Cassius Dio, Roman History LXIX.12.1).In an article published in 1983, Benjamin Isaac rightly underlined various elements showing that Cassius Dio’s narrative of the Bar Kokhba Revolt, as far as we know it through its byzantine epitome, is different from the other narratives of provincial revolts, but also from his depiction of the Diaspora revolt, that is the Jewish riots that occurred in Cyrene, in Egypt and in Cyprus between 115 and 117 CE. He served as a quaestor at the age of 25, a praetor in 194 CE (appointed by Roman emperor Septimius Severus, r. 193-211 CE), a suffect consul in 204 CE, accompanied Emperor Caracalla (r. 211-217 CE) on his eastern tour in 214 and 215 CE, and was named curator of Pergamon and Smyrna by Emperor Macrinus in 218 CE. Dio's Roman History, Loeb series, Macmillan, 1914-27. et sur les ms. de Rome,... par E. Gros,... 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The latter does not deny the magnitude and violence of the war but considers that the geographical extent of the revolt has been largely overestimated. La période impériale est bien plus privilégiée que l'autre. [8.1 . And thus later I came both to Rome and to Campania to visit him, and spent a few days in his company…then, having asked to be excused because of the ailment of my feet, I set out for home, with the intention of spending all the rest of my life in my native land, as, indeed, the Heavenly Power revealed to me most clearly when I was already in Bithynia. Among the differences he notices, three are particularly interesting for our purposes (Isaac, “Cassius Dio”).First, at the very beginning of the narrative, Cassius Dio-Xiphilinus makes explicit the fact that the Jews revolted for religious/ideological reasons. [13.1 . Les meilleures éditions de Dion Cassius, pour le Dictionnaire Bouillet, sont celles : Étienne Gros propose, dès 1845, le texte de l'Histoire romaine avec une traduction en français mais cette édition fut interrompue par sa mort (1856). Written chronologically, it is a history that follows Rome from its early foundation through the reign of Alexander Severus. Wasson, Donald L. "Cassius Dio." All rights reserved. . About Pictures Sources Countries Languages Categories Tags Thanks FAQ Donate Contact Articles Stubs. His periods are full of protracted parentheses and ill-timed inversions. Cassius Dio told of the emperor’s obsession with his skill in the arena and the delight he took in killing animals. G. Zecchini, « Cassio Dione e la guerra gallica di Cesare », cf. Commodus, who considered himself another Hercules, had killed an ostrich on a hunt and then imitated the victorious pose of a gladiator. For him, the revolt stayed concentrated in the Judean mountains (Mor, “The Geographical Scope”). Dio started his literary activity in the 190s and wrote his Roman History in the years 211-233. Like Arrian of Nicomedia and Appian of Alexandria, Cassius Dio (164-c.235) was a Greek by birth and a Roman by conviction, and one of the great historians of Antiquity. . For Mucianus, who claimed that he had bestowed the sovereignty upon Vespasian, plumed himself greatly upon his honours, and especially because he was called brother by him, and had authority to transact any business that he wished without the emperor's express direction, and could issue written orders by merely adding the other's name. However, he drew on his personal experiences in the political arena when writing on his own time period. Livre 47, texte édité, traduit et commenté par V. Fromentin et E. Bertrand, 2014. Chapter 4. Second, this idea that the Jews were against the fact that foreigners could be settled in their city may be interpreted as an indirect echo of the alleged Jewish exclusiveness and misanthropy which is a motif that can be found in many other Roman sources dealing, in a negative way, with the singularity of the Jewish customs (Stern, Greek and Latin II, p. 347; about the connection between the otherness of Jewish customs and the misanthropic nature of the Jews, see Tacitus, Histories V.4-5; Juvenal, Satires XIV.96-106). For a short biographical presentation of Cassius Dio and of his main work, the Roman History, see Cassius Dio, Roman History XXXVII.16-17.The text presented here comes from the sixty ninth book of Cassius Dio’s Roman History, a book starting with Hadrian’s accession to power. 12.1] It will be expanded to a full-fledged article. Moreover, Werner Eck has suggested that the losses must have also been important among the auxiliary forces even if we ignore much about the actions of these auxiliary units during the war (see Eck, “The Bar Kokhba Revolt,” p. 80-81; this hypothesis is contested in Mor, “The Geographical Scope,” p. 118-119). We can see that he insists much more on the losses experienced by the Jewish rebels than those experienced by the Roman troops. (Nicée, Bithynie, v. 155 – id., après 235), est un homme politique, consul et historien romain d'expression grecque, proche des empereurs Septime Sévère et Sévère Alexandre[1]. & Erskine, Andrew & Huebner, Sabine R. Hornblower, Simon & Spawforth, Antony & Eidinow, Esther. All three generals had in common that they had received, after the end of the war, the ornamenta triumphalia, a distinction which was rarely granted, and which thus shows the importance of their victory over a Jewish revolt that for a time, had challenged durably and importantly the authority of Rome (Eck, “The Bar Kokhba Revolt,” p. 86-87).Finally, Cassius Dio-Xiphilinus’s reference to the fact that “many outside nations (πολλοί τε ἄλλοι καὶ τῶν ἀλλοφύλων/polloi te alloi kai tōn allophulōn), too, were joining them through eagerness for gain, and the whole earth, one might almost say, was being stirred up over the matter” (13.2) has been variously interpreted. The change of the republic to the empire dominated his writings. Puis, quelque peu haï pour sa sévérité, Dion Cassius se retire à Nicée pour se consacrer entièrement à son Histoire romaine et meurt vers 234-235. License. Dion Cassius est surtout connu pour son Histoire romaine, ouvrage de 80 livres qui retracent les 973 ans de la vie de Rome, de sa fondation à Alexandre Sévère en 229. BOOK LXIX. Ancient History Encyclopedia, 10 Aug 2020. In his Roman History, he wrote of his career as a consul and legate: Thus far I have described events with as with great accuracy as I could in every case, but for subsequent events I have not found it possible to give an accurate account, for the reason that I did not spend much time in Rome.