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DION CASSIUS

Dion Cassius or Dio Cassius was a Greek historian and administrator. He was born in 155 at Nicaea and died in 230. After accompanying his father to Cilicia, of which he held the administration, he came to Borne about 180, and obtained. the rank of a Roman senator. On the accession of Pertinax Dion Cassius was appointed prastor, and in the reign of Caracalla he was one of the senators whom it had become customary to select to accompany the emperor in his expeditions, of which he complains bitterly. In 219 he was raised to the consulship, and about 224 became proconsul of Africa. In 229 he was again appointed consul; but feeling his life precarious under Alexander Severus, he obtained permission to retire to his native town of Nicaea. The period of his death is unknown. The most important of his writings, though only a small part is extant, is a History of Rome, written in Greek and divided into eighty books, from the arrival of AEneas in Italy and the foundation of Alba and Rome to 229 AD.
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