Acknowledgements
As editors and conference organizers, we have a great many thanks to offer. This volume comes out of a conference titled “Greek and Roman Pasts in the Long Second Century: The Intellectual Climate of Cassius Dio” that was held in Banff, Alberta, at the Buffalo Mountain Lodge on 25–27 May 2018. It was made possible by the International Network for the Study of Cassius Dio and its chief organizers including Carsten Lange, Jesper Madsen, and Josiah Osgood. Through them we enjoyed the support of the Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond. Further funding came from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and, at the University of Alberta, from the Department of History and Classics, the Faculty of Arts Conference Fund, and the Kule Institute.
We would like to thank the Research Office at MacEwan University and the Research Services Office at the University of Alberta, and, in particular, Craig Taylor, for their assistance in preparing the grant applications; David Marples as Chair of the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta and Lindsey Rose as Assistant Chair/Administration; and the staff of the Buffalo Mountain Lodge for their unfailing hospitality and occasional forbearance. This volume appears in Brill’s Historiography of Rome and Its Empire series, and we are most grateful to Carsten Lange and Jesper Madsen as series editors, and Carsten in particular for his consistent support of the volume through the review and editorial process. Our thanks also go to the staff and anonymous readers at Brill.
In April 2021, during the last stages of editing this volume, we learned with sadness of the passing of Peter Michael Swan (1931–2021) of the University of Saskatchewan. Professor Swan was the leading organizer of a conference on Dio in Saskatoon in 1982 that led to the still active Dio Commentary project. His own portion of that project (The Augustan Succession: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio’s Roman History Books 55–56 [9 BC–AD 14], Oxford, 2004) and his articles on related topics remain indispensable to our understanding of Dio and are much cited in the pages that follow. It was not our good fortune to know or work with Professor Swan, but we dedicate this volume to him in gratitude for his contributions to Dio scholarship and the study of Classics in Western Canada.
Adam M. Kemezis (University of Alberta)
Colin Bailey (MacEwan University)
Beatrice Poletti (Queen’s University)
August, 2021