History of Rome, Volume XIV: Summaries. Fragments. Julius Obsequens. General Index

Livy; Julius Obsequens

ISBN 10: 0674994450 / ISBN 13: 9780674994454

Published by Harvard University Press, 1959

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With an English Translation by Alfred C. Schlesinger, and Russel M. Geer. Small 8vo. x, 573pp. 8pp. of advertisement. 2 maps. Original cloth, spotted on the edges. Dust jacket. (Loeb Classical Library, No.404).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: History of Rome, Volume XIV: Summaries. Fragments. Julius Obsequens. General Index
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 1959
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674994450
• ISBN 13: 9780674994454
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
• Weight: 390 grams

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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 Authors

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.