** Cassius Dio's account of Claudius ' reign, part I

** Cassius Dio's account, part II

Cassius Dio's work is invaluable because it alone gives a loose chronology of Caligula's reign.

His body was thrown into the Tiber according to Suetonius ; Cassius Dio's account is that Vitellius was beheaded and his head paraded around Rome, and his wife attended to his burial.

* Cassius Dio's Roman History, epitome of Book 69

* John Xiphilinus's precis of the missing portions of Cassius Dio's Roman History

* Cassius Dio, Dio's Roman History.

The next information about the Lugians comes from Cassius Dio's work Roman History, in which he mentions events of 91 – 92 during the reign of emperor Domitian.

Modern historians, though, keep in mind Suetonius, Tacitus and Cassius Dio's severe bias against Nero and the impossibility of them knowing private events, and hence recognize that Poppaea may have simply died due to fatal miscarriage complications or in childbirth ( in which case the second child also did not survive ).

Togodumnus is known only from Cassius Dio's Roman History, according to which he was a son of Cunobelinus.

She states that while she based her account of Hadrian on the two most principal sources, Historia Augusta and Cassius Dio's Historia Romana, her goal was to reinterpret the past but also strive for historical authenticity.

His books were clearly used by 2nd-early 3rd century historians such as Cassius Dio's report on Agricola's exploration of Britain, and Hegesippus may have borrowed from his account of the Great Jewish Revolt.

The only contemporary detailed account of the invasion comes from Cassius Dio's Roman History, written in the early 3rd century.

Cassius Dio's Roman History records: " These people Jews Antony entrusted to a certain Herod to govern ; but Antigonus he bound to a cross and scourged, a punishment no other king had suffered at the hands of the Romans, and so slew him.

Recently a Spanish scholar has carried out a review of the Greek text of Cassius Dio LVI, 43, 3, in which she emphasizes, first, that the anecdote ( the only ancient reference on Corocotta ) is not in Dio's statements on the Cantabrian wars ( books 53 and 54 ) but in 56, after Augustus ’ s death, cited as an example of his clemency.

* Cassius Dio's original

The Roman historians Suetonius and Cassius Dio record that in 23 BC, Augustus prepared a rationarium ( account ) which listed public revenues, the amounts of cash in the aerarium ( treasury ), in the provincial fisci ( tax officials ), and in the hands of the publicani ( public contractors ); and that it included the names of the freedmen and slaves from whom a detailed account could be obtained.

The battle figures in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar ( background of the story in Acts 4 and 5 ), and a fictionalised account of the battle is depicted in the sixth episode of the second season of the HBO television series Rome ( there is but a single battle and both Cassius and Brutus fall in battle instead of being suicides, though Brutus ' death is a lone, suicidal attack on the triumvirs ' advancing forces ).

According to the account of Dio Cassius ( Roman History, 75. 10-14 ), the city held out against Severan forces for three years, until 196, with its inhabitants resorting even to throwing bronze statues to the besiegers when they ran out of other projectiles.

His work is not entirely reliable although his relatively unbiased account of Elagabalus is more useful than that of Cassius Dio.

The testudo was not invincible, as Cassius Dio also gives an account of a Roman shield array being defeated by Parthian cataphracts and horse archers at the Battle of Carrhae:

* The names of the roads out of Rome and the men of praetorian rank Augustus had made Curatores Viarum to see to the upkeep of them, based on Dio Cassius ' account of the erection of the Monument.

The tale of Cassius Dio is also somewhat different.

Cassius Dio had written an entire chapter on the annexation of Mauretania by Caligula, but it is now lost.

The bulk of what is known of Caligula comes from Suetonius and Cassius Dio.

This is attested by Cassius Dio, Herodian and the Augustan History.

* 44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.

* 47 BC – Julius Caesar visits Tarsus on his way to Pontus, where he meets enthusiastic support, but where, according to Cicero, Cassius is planning to kill him at this point.

The main narrative source for the period is Cassius Dio, a Greek senator from Bithynian Nicaea who wrote a history of Rome from its founding to 229 in eighty books.

This view is based on the writings of Tacitus, Suetonius, and Cassius Dio, the main surviving sources for Nero's reign.

* 1960 – The boxer Muhammad Ali ( then Cassius Clay ) is awarded the gold medal for his first place in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.

Little else is known of the young Severus ' education but according to Cassius Dio, the boy had been eager for more education than he had actually got.

An additional component to the storyline is the uncovering and turning of the Soviet agent codenamed Cassius, a senior aide to a senator in Washington by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

His treachery is considered so notorious that his name has long been synonymous with traitor, a fate he shares with Benedict Arnold, Marcus Junius Brutus ( who too is depicted in Dante's Inferno, suffering the same fate as Judas along with Cassius Longinus ), and Vidkun Quisling.

* Caligula's campaign into Germany is stopped by a conspiracy led by Cassius Chaerea.

* March 15 ( the Ides of March ) – Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, is assassinated by a group of Roman senators, amongst them Gaius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Junius Brutus, and Caesar's Massilian naval commander, Decimus Brutus.

* A Roman military operation under Avidius Cassius is successful against Parthia, capturing Artaxata, Seleucia on the Tigris, and Ctesiphon.

* Avidius Cassius fails in seeking support for his rebellion and is assassinated by Roman officers.

* Cassius Longinus, counselor of queen Zenobia, is executed by the Romans for conspiring against Aurelian.

* Avidius Cassius, governor of Syria, suppresses an agrarian revolt in Egypte and is made supreme commander of the Roman army in the East.

Cassius Dio is most likely not only the first author to mention the Alamanni but also the last one to record an actual historical appearance of the Chatti.

In regard of Cassiope, the only other city of ancient importance, its name is still preserved by the village of Cassiopi, and there are some rude remains of building on the site ; but the temple of Zeus Cassius for which it was celebrated has totally disappeared.

Caratacus is named by Dio Cassius as a son of the Catuvellaunian king Cunobelinus.