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Livy: History of Rome (Books 1-2)

By B. O. Foster

Book information

Year
1919
ISBN
0674991265, 9780674991262
LCC
DG233 .L5813 1976
Open Library ID
OL2142031M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
25 MB (25824455 bytes)
Series
Loeb Classical Library No. 114
Volume
1
Pages
502\502
Time added
2016-09-29 19:04:31

Description

Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BCE; he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in 12 or 17 CE. Livy's only extant work is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9 BCE. Of its 142 books, we have just 35, and short summaries of all the rest except two. The whole work was, long after his death, divided into Decades or series of ten. Books 1–10 we have entire; books 11–20 are lost; books 21–45 are entire, except parts of 41 and 43–45. Of the rest only fragments and the summaries remain. In splendid style Livy, a man of wide sympathies and proud of Rome's past, presented an uncritical but clear and living narrative of the rise of Rome to greatness. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Livy is in fourteen volumes. The last volume includes a comprehensive index.

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