Editing Cassius Dio (section)

==Biography==
Lucius Cassius Dio{{efn-lr|The name "Lucius" is attested by {{AE|1985|821}}. Another inscription ({{AE|1971|430}}) attests "Cl(audius) Cassius Dio", but the extra letter is probably a stone cutter's error.<ref>''[[Oxford Classical Dictionary]]'', [https://oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-1415 "Cassius Dio".] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709184411/https://oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-1415 |date=2021-07-09 }}</ref><ref>Dio's name: ''[[L'Année épigraphique]]'' 1971, 430 = Κλ΄ Κάσσιος Δίων. ''Roman Military Diplomas'', Roxan, 133 = ''L. Cassius Dio''.</ref> Dio is also alleged to have had the {{lang|la|[[cognomen]]}} "Cocceianus", but Alain Gowing argues that the evidence for it is insufficient, and the ascription is a Byzantine confusion with [[Dio Chrysostom]], whom Pliny shows to be named Cocceianus.<ref>{{citation|author=Gowing, Alain|jstor=269480|title=Dio's Name|journal=Classical Philology|volume=85|issue=1|date=January 1990|pages=49–54|doi=10.1086/367176|s2cid=161453524|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/269480}}</ref>}} was the son of [[Cassius Apronianus]], a [[Roman senator]] and member of the [[Cassia gens]], who was born and raised at [[Nicaea]] in [[Bithynia]]. [[Byzantine Greeks|Byzantine]] tradition maintains that Dio's mother was the daughter or sister of the Greek orator and philosopher, [[Dio Chrysostom]]; however, this relationship has been disputed. Although Dio was a [[Roman citizen]], he wrote in Greek. Dio always maintained a love for his hometown of Nicaea, calling it "my home", as opposed to his description of his villa in [[Capua]], Italy ("the place where I spend my time whenever I am in Italy").<ref name="Potter">{{Cite book |last=Potter |first=David Stone |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Da6U4NaBMZAC&pg=PA72 |title=The Roman Empire at Bay, AD 180-395 |date=2004 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-0-415-10057-1 |page=72 |language= |access-date=2023-06-02 |archive-date=2023-06-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230602205657/https://books.google.com/books?id=Da6U4NaBMZAC&pg=PA72 |url-status=live }}</ref>

For the greater part of his life, Dio was a member of the [[Civil service|public service]]. He was a senator under [[Commodus]] and governor of [[İzmir|Smyrna]] following the death of [[Septimius Severus]]; he became a [[suffect consul]] in approximately the year 205. Dio was also [[proconsul]] in [[Africa (Roman province)|Africa]] and [[Pannonia]]. [[Severus Alexander]] held Dio in the highest esteem and reappointed him to the position of consul in 229. Following his second consulship, while in his later years, Dio returned to his native Bithynia, where he eventually died.<ref name="Scott">{{Cite book |last=Scott |first=Andrew G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eKZTDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1 |title=Emperors and Usurpers: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman History |date=2018 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-087959-4 |page=1 |language= |access-date=2023-06-02 |archive-date=2023-06-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230602205658/https://books.google.com/books?id=eKZTDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Carter |first=John |url=https://archive.org/details/romanhistoryreig00cass |title=The Reign of Augustus |publisher=Penguin Books |year=1987 |isbn=978-0-14-044448-3 |location=London |pages=[https://archive.org/details/romanhistoryreig00cass/page/n8 1] |url-access=registration}}</ref>

Dio was either the grandfather or great-grandfather of [[Cassius Dio (consul 291)|Cassius Dio]], consul in 291.<ref>{{cite book |title=[[Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire]] |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=1971 |isbn=978-0-521-20159-9 |editor1-last=Martindale |editor1-first=John Robert |volume=I |page=253 |chapter=Cassius Dio |editor2-last=Jones |editor2-first=Arnold Hugh Martin |editor3-last=Morris |editor3-first=J. |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/prosopography-later-roman-empire/PLRE-I/page/252}}</ref>