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2020
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Balance Handwriting Chirography Eyesight Seeing Sight Papers Interest and usury Pattern Model Ethnography Races of man Social anthropology Cultural anthropology Balancing (Physics) Balance (Physics) Balance Rulers Sovereigns Inquisitiveness Exploratory behavior Cultural sociology Culture--Social aspects Sociology of cultureCiter ce document
Guy Lachenaud, « The World as Seen by Cassius Dio: Autopsis, Borrowed Knowledge and Representations », Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes, ID : 10670/1.1ec40b...
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Although Cassius Dio chiefly follows the annalistic model, even when writing about the emperors, his geography and ethnography should not be despised. While he moves along the stages of the Roman conquest to the balance point of the Augustan age, and further to his own times, he inserts notices of varied length which give some hints on his vision of the world, culture, and curiosity. The ethnographic descriptions, though bearing the imprint of the classical tradition, are not devoid of originality, e.g. when he reverses the opposition between Romans and barbarians. The paper emphasizes his peculiar points of interest and the effects of his personal experience.
