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Cassius Dio

Type Figure Region Rome Time c. 155–235 Also known as 狄奥·卡西乌斯、Cassius Dio、Dio Cassius、Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Greco-Roman historian and statesman from an aristocratic family of Asia Minor, who served long as a Roman senator and provincial governor.…

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  1. c. 155–180Nicaea · BithyniaBorn in Nicaea in Bithynia, his father was a Roman senator. In his youth he went to Rome to study, mastering Greek and Latin, and later entered politics, being appointed a senator.
  2. c. 180–235Rome · Roman EmpireHe successively held the offices of quaestor, consul, and governor of provinces such as Africa and Pannonia, personally witnessing the political situations under emperors Commodus and the Severans. Over several decades he wrote the eighty-book Roman History, systematically narrating Roman history from the city's founding to his own time.

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