Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Michael Swan (known to his publishers as Peter Michael Swan) for his recently published monograph, The Augustan Succession: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman History Books 55-56 (9 B.C.-A.D. 14) (Oxford University Press: 2004). Writing in the third century A.D., historian Cassius Dio is our fullest surviving historical source for the reign of the Emperor Augustus. Michael's book offers the first new commentary on this segment of Dio's work to appear since the eighteenth century. As one would expect of Michael, the book is addressed to both students and scholars. Click here for further details.