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The historian Cassius Dio ( LXXVII. 1. 3-5 ) credits the later emperor Septimius Severus with bringing the crocotta to Rome, saying this " Indian species ... was then introduced into Rome for the first time, so far as I am aware.
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His advisers were men like the famous jurist Ulpian, the historian Cassius Dio and a select board of sixteen senators ; a municipal council of fourteen assisted the urban prefect in administering the affairs of the fourteen districts of Rome.
In the 3rd century, however, the Greek historian Dio Cassius states that the " Bastarnae are properly classed as Scythians " and " members of the Scythian race ".
The contemporary historian Cassius Dio suggests that Gannys was in fact killed by the new emperor because he was forcing Elagabalus to live " temperately and prudently.
1st or 2nd century historian Cassius Dio cites the brothers Raos and Raptos as the leaders of the Astings.
* Dio Cassius, Roman historian
Caracalla's reign was also notable for the Constitutio Antoniniana ( also called the Edict of Caracalla ), granting Roman citizenship to all freemen throughout the Roman Empire for the purpose of increasing tax revenue, according to historian Cassius Dio.
According to historian Cassius Dio, over 20, 000 people were killed.
According to the historian Cassius Dio, Vindex " was powerful in body and of shrewd intelligence, was skilled in warfare and full of daring for any great enterprise ; and he had a passionate love of freedom and a vast ambition " ( Cassius Dio, 63. 22. 1-2 ).
According to the historian Cassius Dio, he has a stable relationship with his chariot driver, the slave Hierocles.
Both Philostratus and renowned historian Cassius Dio report this incident, probably on the basis of an oral tradition.
The ancient historian Cassius Dio writes that Berenice was at the height of her power during this time, and if it can be any indication as to how influential she was, Quintilian records an anecdote in his Institutio Oratoria where, to his astonishment, he found himself pleading a case on Berenice's behalf where she herself presided as the judge.
* Cassius Dio ( 2nd-3rd centuries ) Roman historian, senator, and consul.
) It was the birthplace of the mathematician and astronomer Sporus ( circa 240 ), the astronomer Hipparchus ( circa 194 BC ), and the historian Dio Cassius ( circa 165 ).
* Cassius Dio ( AD c. 165 – c. 229 ), Roman historian
According to historian Cassius Dio ( XXXVII, 5 ), Afranius retook the district without a conflict with Phraates ' forces.
She may be related to the goddess Andate, identified with Victory in Britain according to Roman historian Cassius Dio.
Andraste, also known as Andrasta or Andred, was, according to the Roman historian Dio Cassius, an Icenic war goddess invoked by Boudica in her fight against the Roman occupation of Britain in AD 60.
As the ancient historian Cassius Dio describes:
The historian Niebuhr suggests that Cassius ' sons may have been expelled by the patricians from their order, or that they or their descendants may have voluntarily passed over to the plebeians, because the patricians had shed the blood of their father.
He should not be confused with the Roman historian Cassius Dio, nor with the 4th-century bishop John Chrysostom of Constantinople.
* Lucius Cassius Hemina, a historian of the 2nd century BC.
* Cassius Apronianus, governor of Dalmatia and Cilicia, father of the historian Cassius Dio.
* Cassius Dio, consul in AD 291, perhaps the grandson of the historian.
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Similarly, in a Corinthian Oration, Dio Chrysostom ( or yet another pseudonymous author ) accused the historian of prejudice against Corinth, sourcing it in personal bitterness over financial disappointments-an account also given by Marcellinus in his Life of Thucydides.
* Dio Chrysostom, Greek philosopher and historian
* Dio Chrysostom, Greek historian
Additionally, fragments of an unknown continuator of Dio ( Anonymus post Dionem ), generally identified with the 6th-century historian, Peter the Patrician, are included ; these date back to the time of Constantine.
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Lincoln was historian and economist enough to know that a substantial portion of this wealth had accumulated in the hands of the descendants of New Englanders engaged in the slave trade.
A Yale historian, writing a few years ago in The Yale Review, said: `` We in New England have long since segregated our children ''.
To play the guitar as he aspires will devour his three-fold energy as a historian, a poet and a singer.
But the historian of literature need not confine his attention to biography or to stylistic questions of form, `` texture '', or technique.
`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.
The knowledge in virtue of which a man is an historian is a knowledge of what the evidence at his disposal proves about certain events ''.
It is obvious that the historian who seeks to recapture the ideas that have motivated human behavior throughout a given period will find the art and literature of that age one of his central and major concerns, by no means a mere supplement or adjunct of significant historical research.
Samuel Gorton, founder of Warwick, was styled by the historian Samuel Greene Arnold `` one of the most remarkable men who ever lived ''.
The historian Charles Francis Adams called him `` a crude and half-crazy thinker ''.
At the bottom of this change were great strides forward in the technical equipment and technical standards of the historian.
In archaeology, for example, the contributions of Frederick Haverfield and Reginald Smith to the various volumes of the Victoria County Histories raised the discipline from the status of an antiquarian pastime to that of the most valuable single tool of the early English historian.
Often the historian must consider the use of intuition or instinct by those individuals or nations which he is studying.
When the historian encounters a situation in which he can perceive no visible cause and effect sequence, he should be alert to intuition and unconscious instinct as possible guides.
Adams firmly contended that the historian must never underrate the impact of the geographical environment on history.
All areas of history were either favorably or adversely affected by the geographical environment, and no respectable historian could pursue the study of history without a thorough knowledge of geography.
However, as a practicing historian, he, himself, has left few clues to the amount of professional scholarship that he used when writing history.
A credulousness, a distaste for documentation, an uncritical reliance on contemporary accounts, and a proneness to assume a theory as true before adequate proof was provided were all evidences of his failure to comprehend the use of the scientific method or to evaluate the responsibilities of the historian to his reading public.
The desire to substantiate a thesis at the expense of sound research technique smacks more of the propagandist than the historian.
In all fairness it must be admitted that Adams made no pretense at being an impartial historian.
If the historian was convinced of his own correctness, then he should not allow his vision to become fogged by disturbing facts.
It was history that must be in error, not the historian.
The historian need not be concerned with the philosophical problems suggested by religion.
and, since the historian should only be interested in strictly terrestrial activity, his research should eliminate the supernatural.
Duclos, the historian, pointed out to Jean Jacques that this was impossible.
He is a historian, with the great merit of a historian's long view.
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