{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0385.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0385.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0385.tlg001.local001","title":"Ῥωμαϊκὴ Ἱστορία (Books 36-55)","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Cassius Dio Cocceianus","authorityName":"CASSIUS DIO Hist.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0385-cassius-dio/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0385-cassius-dio/","editors":["Earnest Cary"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Dio's Roman History","edition":null,"publisher":"William Heinemann","place":"London","date":"1914-1917","volume":"3-6","series":"Loeb Classical Library","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Bridget Almas","Lisa Cerrato","Rashmi Singhal"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/diosromanhistory03cassuoft/page/n11/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Cassius Dio Cocceianus. Ῥωμαϊκὴ Ἱστορία (Books 36-55). ed. Earnest Cary. 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