title: Foreign and Domestic, Part I: When Rome Stumbles (Volume 1)
author: Mr. David J. Kershner
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  # Dio's Rome, Volume 1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Cassius Dio
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
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  * [CONCERNING THE TRANSLATION](dirome_split_2.html#1_0_2)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [CONCERNING THE ORIGINAL.](dirome_split_2.html#1_1)
  
  
    * [A.—THE WRITING.](dirome_split_3.html#1_1_1)
  
  
  * [B.—THE WRITER.](dirome_split_4.html#1_1_2)
  
  
  * [A LIST OF THE MORE RECENT DISSERTATIONS](dirome_split_5.html#1_1_3)
  
  
  * [A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL ARTICLES](dirome_split_6.html#1_1_4)
  
  
  * [THE ORIGINAL ARRANGEMENT](dirome_split_7.html#1_1_5)
  
  
  * [AN EPITOME of THE LOST BOOKS I-XXI OF DIO](dirome_split_8.html#1_1_6)
  
  
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      Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6)
  
  
  An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek
  
  
  during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla,
  
  
  Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form
  
  
  
  
      
  
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