History of Rome, Volume V
Books 21-22
Rome, from the beginning.
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 five hundred 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 decades, we have 1–10 and 21–45 complete, and short summaries (periochae) of all the rest except 41 and 43–45;…
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J. C. Yardley is Professor of Classics, Emeritus, at the University of Ottawa.
Dexter Hoyos is Honorary Associate in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney.
John Briscoe is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester.
