Robin Waterfield is an independent scholar and translator, and a former university lecturer, now living in southern Greece. In addition to over thirty volumes of translations of ancient Greek, he is the author of numerous books, ranging from children's fiction to Greek history.
John Rich taught throughout his career at the University of Nottingham. He is now Emeritus Professor at Nottingham and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. He has published widely on Roman history and historiography, with particular focuses on Roman war and imperialism, the reign of Augustus, and the Roman histories of Appian and Cassius Dio.

• Introduction


• Translator's Note


• Select Bibliography


• Structure


• A Chronology of Events


• ROMAN HISTORY, BOOKS THIRTY-SIX TO FORTY


• Appendix: Roman Names; Roman Money and Measures of Distance; The Roman Calendar


• Explanatory Notes


• Glossary


• Index of Proper Names

This book presents the first English translation to appear for over a hundred years of a key text, Books 36-40 of Cassius Dio's Roman History, which is not only the fullest surviving account of the last twenty years before the Roman Republic collapsed (69-50 BCE) but is also a vivid and compelling historical narrative.