History of Rome, Volume IV Books 8 10

Livy, translated by B. O. Foster

ISBN 10: 0674992105 / ISBN 13: 9780674992108

Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1982

About this Item

Red cloth, slight edge rubbing, light age freckling of page edges. In slightly edge rubbed DJ. Now protected in a mylar jacket. ; Loeb Classic, # 191; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 592 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: History of Rome, Volume IV Books 8 10
• Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674992105
• ISBN 13: 9780674992108
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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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.