Moving Livy

AbstractLivy's books 21-44 contain roughly ninety battles, about half of which are mentioned only briefly, though usually including figures on casualties, captives and booty. Livy'...

Abstract Dionysius’ preface makes his attitude to the role of the regal period particularly clear. Livy’s preface, although no less revealing, expresses a much less ...

A REFERENCE by the poet Martial to an abridged version of the history of Livy has given rise to the view that this epitome provided the main source for the transmission of Livy for...

Comparing the practice of the ancient Romans with that of his contemporaries provided Machiavelli with a consistent point of view in all his works. Machiavelli’s close analysis of ...

AbstractThe Process of using resources in higher education is influenced by the up and down of the number students. The purpose of this study is to predict the number of students w...

The classic history of the Roman republic in the twentieth century is Gaetano De Sanctis' Storia dei Romani, although it reached only to 134 BC. The most important source for that ...

Livy (Titus Livius) was born in (probably) 59 bce, in Patavium (the modern Padua); he died in (probably) 17 ce. Little is known of his life; he is not attested as having held any p...

Chapter 3 discusses how the categories set up in his preface – vita et mores – played a key role throughout the narrative of the history of Rome in his Ab Urbe Condita. The numerou...