History of Rome, Volume I: Books 1-2 (Loeb Classical Library 114)

Livy; Translated by B. O. Foster

ISBN 10: 0674991265 / ISBN 13: 9780674991262

Published by Harvard University Press / Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, Mass., 1998

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Clean, tight hardcover bound in full cloth with unmarked interior and text. The dust jacket is bright, attractive, and whole with light sunning to the spine. NOT ex-lib. A clean, tight copy in jacket. Indexed. xxxvi, 447pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: History of Rome, Volume I: Books 1-2 (Loeb Classical Library 114)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press / Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, Mass.
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674991265
• ISBN 13: 9780674991262
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Benjamin Oliver Foster (1872–1938) was Professor of Classics at Stanford University.