History of Rome - Volume V, Books 21-22 (Loeb Classical Library No. 233)

Livy | B.O. Foster (trans.)

ISBN 10: 0674992563 / ISBN 13: 9780674992566

Published by Harvard University Press, 1989

About this Item

Loeb Classical Library. Missing Dust Jacket. 16mo. Red cloth boards with gilt insignia on front board and gilt lettering/ornamentation on spine; foldout map intact in back of book. Light edge wear on boards, corners mildly bumped.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: History of Rome - Volume V, Books 21-22 (Loeb Classical Library No. 233)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674992563
• ISBN 13: 9780674992566
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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