The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization | Cassius Dio
Cassius Dio(c. AD 164–after 229), Greek senator and author of an 80-book history of Rome from the foundation of the city to AD 229. His full name was perhaps Lucius Cassius Dio, as on M. M. Roxan, Roman Military Diplomas 2 (1985), no. 133 (‘Cl.’ on L'Année Épigraphique 1971, 430, could attest the further name ‘Claudius’, but is probably a stone-cutter's error; ‘Cocceianus’ may have been added in Byzantine times through confusion with Dio of Prusa). Dio came from a prominent family of Nicaea in Bithynia (mod. Iznik). His father, Cassius Apronianus, entered the senate, attaining a consulship and several governorships. Dio's senatorial career was even more distinguished. He was praetor in 194 and suffect consul probably c.204. From 218 to 228 he was successively curator (state finance official) of Pergamum and Smyrna, proconsul of [The entire page is 1002 words long]
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