id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt books-google-com-9268 Greek Narratives of the Roman Empire under the Severans: Cassius Dio ... - Adam M. Kemezis - Google Books .html text/html 611 71 51 activities Aeschines Albinus Alexander Alexander's Antonine Apollonius Appian argues argument army Athens audience Augustus Book Caesar Caracalla career Cassius Dio century chapter characters claims Commodus contemporary context continuity contrast death defining describe Dio's discourse Domitian dynasteia dynastic earlier Elagabalus elite emperor empire evidence explicit explicitly figure Flinterman gives Gordian Gordian III Greek culture Hadrian Hellenic Herodes Herodian Hidber historians historiography identity imperial Kemezis later literary Lucian Macrinus Maecenas Marcus Maximinus military monarchical narrative world narrator Nero notably Octavian one's overall Pannonian Parthian past period Pertinax Philiscus philosophical Philostratus Polemo political Pompey Pompey's portrayed positive Praetorians present provincial question readers refer reign relationship Republican rhetorical role Roman Rome rule ruler Second Sophistic Senate senatorial sense Septimius Severus Severan Severan dynasty significant soldiers specific speech story Tacitus tradition Trajan wars Whittaker 1969 Xiph καὶ Title Greek Narratives of the Roman Empire under the Severans: Cassius Dio, Philostratus and Herodian ./cache/books-google-com-9268.html ./txt/books-google-com-9268.txt