
History of Rome, Volume XIV
Summaries. Fragments. Julius Obsequens. General Index
LOEB (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 1959
Book
Hardback
592 pages
978-0-674-99445-4 (ISBN)
Description
Rome, from the beginning.
Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC; he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in AD 12 or 17.
Livy's only extant work is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9 BC. Of its 142 books, we have just thirty-five, 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 Rome's rise to greatness.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Livy is in fourteen volumes. The last volume includes a comprehensive index.
Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC; he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in AD 12 or 17.
Livy's only extant work is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9 BC. Of its 142 books, we have just thirty-five, 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 Rome's rise to greatness.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Livy is in fourteen volumes. The last volume includes a comprehensive index.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Publishing group
Harvard University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 maps
Dimensions
Height: 162 mm
Width: 108 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
413 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-674-99445-4 (9780674994454)
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Alfred Cary Schlesinger (1900-1993) was Professor of Ancient History at Oberlin College. Russel Mortimer Geer (1894-1984) was W. R. Irby Professor of Classical Languages at Tulane University.