Bithynialı İki Yazar: Lucius Flavius Arrianus ve Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Bithynia’nın farklı iki kentinde doğmuş olan Lucius Flavius Arrianus (yak.MS 86-160) ve Cassius Dio Cocceianus (yak.MS 155-235) İmparatorluk Roma’sının iki önemli devlet adamı ve yazarıdır. İkisi de Roma ile yakın ilişki içinde bulunmuş, hatta Arrianus kendi dönemi içinde bakıldığında Asia’dan çıkan sayılı senatör ve consülden biri olmuştur. Cassius Dio ise ondan bir kuşak sonra hem politika hem de yazarlık sahnesinde kendini göstermiş ve başarılı olmuştur. Bu iki karakter başta tarih olmak üzere coğrafya, strateji, biyografi gibi pek çok alanda eser kaleme alarak geçmişin ve kendi dönemlerinin izlerini muhafaza etmişler ve hem tarih yazıcılığında hem de politik yaşantıda etkili olmuşlardır. Çalışma, bu iki yazar ve siyasetçinin hayatı ve eserleri hakkında bir derleme sunmayı amaçlamaktadır.

Two Bithynian Writers: Lucius Flavius Arrianus and Cassius Dio Coccecianus

Lucius Flavius Arrianus (c. 86-160 AD) and Cassius Dio Cocceianus (ca. 155-235 AD) who were born in two important cities of the Bithynia were two important writers and statesmen of Roman Imperial period. Both had close relations with Rome, and Arrianus was one of the few senators and consuls from Asia in his own time. Cassius Dio, on the other hand, became successful in both politics and writing a generation later. These two characters have preserved the traces of the past and their own periods by writing in many fields such as geography, strategy, and biography, especially history, and have been influential in both historiography and political life. The study aims to present a compilation about the life and works of these two writers and politicians.

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