Screen LibraryHistory of Rome. XI, Books 38-40 /
"Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, where after years in Rome he died in AD 12 or 17. Livy's history, composed as the imperial autocracy of Augustus was replacing the republican system that had stood for over 500 years, presents in...
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Harvard University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English Latin |
| Series: |
Loeb classical library ;
313 |
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| Summary: |
"Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, where after years in Rome he died in AD 12 or 17. Livy's history, composed as the imperial autocracy of Augustus was replacing the republican system that had stood for over 500 years, presents in splendid style a vivid narrative of Rome's rise from the traditional foundation of the city in 753 or 751 BC to 9 BC and illustrates the collective and individual virtues necessary to achieve and maintain such greatness. Of its 142 books, conventionally divided into pentads and decads, we have 1-10 and 21-45 complete, and short summaries (periochae) of all the rest except 41 and 43-45; 11-20 are lost, and of the rest only fragments and the summaries remain. This edition replaces the original Loeb edition by Evan T. Sage [and] offers a text based on Briscoe's edition, a fresh translation, and ample annotation fully current with modern scholarship."-- |
| Item Description: | "A completely new edition was ... thought to be needed. This volume and the two that follow [for Livy's "fourth decade"] are the start of that process of replacement."--Volume 9, page vii. |
| Carrier Form: | vii, 576 pages ; 17 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780674997196 (hardback) : 0674997190 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | PA6452 |
| CLC: | K126 |
| Call Number: | K126/L788-2/11 |