Dion Cassius: Un historien méconnu. Occident la question de la liberté

la question de la liberté : « Je suis libre

both by Egyptologists and by specialists in the Greek and Roman worlds

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Dion Cassius: Un historien méconnu. Occident la question de la libertéWritten by one of the best current specialists, this work in a lively style presents the life of a major historian of ancient Rome and the originality of his work. Dio Cassius, an aristocrat from Asia Minor, became a high official in Rome and advisor to one of the emperors of the Severan dynasty, at the beginning of the 3rd century century AD, then returned to his homeland to write, in Greek, a monumental history of Rome, from its origins to its own