Rich J.W. (ed.). Cassius Dio: The Augustan Settlement: Roman History 53.1-55.9

Liverpool University Press, 2004. — 272 p.Covers the years 28 to 5 BC; includes Dio's discussion of the constitutional settlement of 27 BC and the imperial system it inaugurated. In both his career and his writings, Lucius Cassius Dio is the supreme instance of a man who was at once a Greek and a Roman. His family came from Nicaea, one of the two chief cities of the province of Bithynia in northern Asia Minor, which, like the rest of the East, was predominantly Greek in language and culture, but Dio followed his father into the Roman senate and, like him, had a successful senatorial career. He thought of Nicaea as his fatherland, but his identification with the Romans and with the senatorial class was complete.
J. W. Rich is Emeritus Professor of Roman History at the Department of Classics, University of Nottingham. He is editor of 'The City in Late Antiquity' (Routledge, 1996); co-editor with Andrew Wallace-Hadrill of 'City and Country in the Ancient World' (Routledge, 1992); and co-editor with Graham Shipley of 'War and Society in the Roman World' and 'War and Society in the Greek World' (Routledge, 1995).