Cassius Dio - Literary Style

Literary Style

Dio attempted to emulate Thucydides in his writing style, but was unable to match the arrangement and the presentation of the materials, the soundness of his viewpoint, and the accuracy of his reasoning. Dio's style is generally clear, where there appears to be no corruption of the text; although, his writing is full of Latinisms. Dio's writing was underpinned by a set of personal circumstances, whereby he was able to observe significant events of the Empire in the first-person, or he had direct contact with the key figures who were involved.

Political offices
Preceded by
Uncertain
Consul suffectus of the Roman Empire
around 205
with uncertain
Succeeded by
Uncertain
Preceded by
Quintus Aiacius Modestus Crescentianus,
Marcus Pomponius Maecius Probus
Consul of the Roman Empire
229
with Alexander Severus
Succeeded by
Lucius Virius Agricola ,
Sextus Catius Clementinus Priscillianus

Read more about this topic:  Cassius Dio

Famous quotes containing the words literary and/or style:

    Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It’s literary suicide.
    Erma Bombeck (b. 1927)

    Everything ponderous, viscous, and solemnly clumsy, all long- winded and boring types of style are developed in profuse variety among Germans—forgive me the fact that even Goethe’s prose, in its mixture of stiffness and elegance, is no exception, being a reflection of the “good old time” to which it belongs, and a reflection of German taste at a time when there still was a “German taste”Ma rococo taste in moribus et artibus.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)