While it follows the standard system used in the Boissevain edition, Prof. Cary exercised a good deal of editorial judgment on the fragmentary texts of Dio and reassembled them in an order that suited him - leaving, however, the standard numbering in place to facilitate reference. The Book, chapter, and section numbering is confusing. (Details here on the copyright law involved.) Now in the public domain pursuant to the 1978 revision of the U. S. Copyright Code, since the copyright on the earlier volumes has lapsed and that on the later volumes was not renewed at the appropriate time, which would have been in various years thru 1955.
Loeb Classical Library, 9 volumes, Greek texts and facing English translation: Harvard University Press, 1914 thru 1927. I've now started final proofreading: in the table of contents below, books whose text I believe to be completely errorfree are shown on blue backgrounds. I ran a first proofreading pass immediately after entering each book, and later got sustained help fromįour other readers, so that the text of all the books is quite good already. (Well-meaning attempts to get me to scan text, if successful, would merely turn me into some kind of machine: gambit declined.) are still in progress.Īs almost always, I retyped the text rather than scanning it: not only to minimize errors prior to proofreading, but as an opportunity for me to become intimately familiar with the work, an exercise which I heartily recommend. The entire work is online and has been subjected to several preliminary proofreading passes but the local link scheme, detailed proofreading, addition of links, commentary, illustrations, etc. This brief but careful article in the Catholic Encyclopedia. The excerptors are less well represented online except for Zonaras, on whom see In Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome.įor the little we know of Dio, filled out with a bit of reasonable conjecture, as well as a brief analysis and critique of the History and a somewhat longer account of the tangled manuscript situation, see Prof. Cary's
The details, and the original undoctored version of this photo, are in
The Curia Julia he knew burnt to the ground about fifty years after he died it was replaced by the one you see. In fact, though, the building that remains - the Curia as we have it today - Cassius Dio never saw. Since, however, our author was not Italian, but Greek, I've greyed out the modern Monument to Victor Emmanuel in the far background nor is there any evidence that he might have been Christian, so the church of SS. Luca and Martina in the closer background is also greyed out. Dio will never let you forget he was a Roman senator!
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