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- Title
Sir Richard Morison: An Early Reader of Cassius Dio in Tudor England?
- Authors
Mallan, C. T.
- Abstract
Scholars have suggested that Cassius Dio's Roman History was among the Greek sources used by the 16th century polemicist Sir Richard Morison in two of his treatises from the 1530s. This short article shows that this is not the case. Rather, Morison can be seen to be borrowing from Seneca's De Clementia and Politian's Latin translation of Herodian's History of the Empire after Marcus Aurelius. This conclusion may cast some further light on the provenance of the booklist contained in British Library Add. MS 40,676 (ff. 110r-116r), and its attribution to Morison.
- Subjects
ROMAN history; MORISON, Richard; CASSIUS Dio Cocceianus, d. 235; HERODIAN; IMPERIALISM
- Publication
International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 2022, Vol 29, Issue 4, p353
- ISSN
1073-0508
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12138-022-00620-y