Acknowledgments
I owe a great deal of thanks to Carsten Hjort Lange and Jesper Majbom Madsen. As the organizers of the Cassius Dio Network, along with George Hinge, Adam Kemezis, and Josiah Osgood, they kindly invited me to participate in a number of stimulating conferences and to present my work on Cassius Dio there. As editors of this series, they encouraged the writing of this volume, commented extensively on it, and helped bring it to publication. Finally, as interlocutors they have engaged with me in numerous conversations about Cassius Dio specifically and Roman history and historiography generally. I am also grateful to the members of and participants in the Cassius Dio Network for thoughtful conversations about Cassius Dio and numerous other topics, as well as for their collegiality and inspiration. I owe a further debt of gratitude to the anonymous reader of this manuscript, who made many helpful suggestions about the presentation and argument of this book.
The beginning of work on this book was aided by a generous sabbatical enhancement grant from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation. I am also grateful to Villanova University for significant conference travel funding and the granting of an additional research semester, during which I was able to complete this manuscript. I must also thank the staff at Falvey Library for their willingness to acquire books that I requested and for tracking down countless interlibrary loan items. Villanova University’s Subvention of Publication Program provided funds for the indexing of this volume. I am grateful to Susan Perretta for carefully proofreading the manuscript.
I dedicate this book to my grandmother, Carol Mancini, who has been an enormous supporter of my career, but more importantly has been a source of love and joy to her family for over nine decades.