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Titus Livius (traditionally 59 BC–17Ronald Syme has argued for 64 BC–12), known as Livy in English language, was a Ancient Rome historian who wrote a monumental History of Rome, Ab Urbe condita, from its founding (traditionally dated to 753 BC) through the reign of Augustus in Livy's own time. Life and works Livy was a native of Patavium (modern Padua, Italy) in Cisalpine Gaul. He was married and had at least two children. He died in his native town, some record as A.D. 11 or A.D. 16-17.The American International Encyclopedia, J.J. Little & Ives, New York 1954, Volume IX.

The title of his most famous work, Ab Urbe Condita (book) ("From the Founding of the City"), expresses the scope and magnitude of Livy's undertaking. He wrote in a mixture of annual chronology and narrative—often having to interrupt a story to announce the elections of new consuls as this was the way that the Romans kept track of the years. Livy claims that lack of historical data prior to the sacking of Rome in 387 BC by the Gauls made his task more difficult.Many modern historians do not think there were actually many records to lose at this early point.

Livy wrote the majority of his works during the reign of Augustus. However, he is often identified with an attachment to the Roman Republic and a desire for its restoration. Since the later books discussing the end of the Republic and the rise of Augustus did not survive, this is a moot point. Certainly Livy questioned some of the values of the new regime but it is likely that his position was more complex than a simple 'republic/empire' preference. Augustus does not seem to have held these views against Livy, and entrusted his great-nephew, the future emperor Claudius, to his tutelage. His effect on Claudius was apparent during the latter's reign, as the emperor's oratory closely adheres to Livy's account of Roman history.

Livy's writing style was poetic and archaic in contrast to Caesar's and Cicero's styles. Also, he often wrote from the Roman's opponent's point of view in order to accent the Romans' virtues in their conquest of Italy and the Mediterranean. In keeping with his poetic tendencies, he did little to distinguish between fact and fiction. Although he frequently plagiarized previous authors, he hoped that moral lessons from the past would serve to advance the Roman society of his day.

Livy's work was originally composed of 142 books, of which only 35 are Extant literature; these are 1-10, and 21-45 (with major Lacuna (manuscripts) in 40-45). A fragmentary palimpsest of the 91st book was discovered in the Vatican Library in 1772, containing about a thousand words, and several papyrus fragments of previously unknown material, much smaller, have been found in Egypt since 1900, most recently about forty words from book 11, unearthed in the 1980s. Livy was abridged, in antiquity, to an epitome, which survives for Book I, but was itself abridged into the so-called Periochae, which is simply a list of contents, but which survives. An epitome of books 37-40 and 48-55 was also uncovered at Oxyrhynchus. So we have some idea of the topics Livy covered in the lost books, if often not what he said about them.

A number of Roman authors used Livy, including Aurelius Victor, Cassiodorus, Eutropius, Festus, Florus, Granius Licinianus and Orosius. Julius Obsequens used Livy, or a source with access to Livy, to compose his De Prodigiis, an account of supernatural events in Rome, from the consulship of Scipio and Laelius to that of Paulus Fabius and Quintus Aelius.

A digression in book 9, sections 17-19 suggests that the Romans would have beaten Alexander the Great if he lived longer and turned west to attack the Romans, making this the oldest known alternate history (fiction).

Reception Livy's work met with instant acclaim. His books were published in sets of ten, although when entirely completed, his whole work was available for sale in its entirety. His highly literary approach to his historical writing renders his works very entertaining, and they remained constantly popular from his own day, through the Middle Ages, and into the modern world. Dante speaks highly of him in his poetry, and Francis I of France commissioned extensive artwork treating Livian themes. That he was chosen by Rome's first emperor to be the private tutor to his successor indicates Livy's renown as a great writer and sage. As topics from his history appear to have been used for writing topics in Roman schools, it is more than likely that his works, or sections, were used as textbooks. The two ten-book sets that remained popular throughout the millennia are the first ten books, describing the founding of Rome and its conquest of Italy, and the third set of ten books (XXI to XXX) recounting the war with Hannibal, which he himself indicates is his greatest theme. He can be looked upon as the prose counterpart of Vergil in Golden Age Latin literature.

Politics Many of Livy's comments on Roman politics seem surprisingly modern today. For example, he wrote (of the year 445 BC):

References and further reading

Burck, E (1934), Die Erzählungskunst des T. Livius (Berlin)
Chaplin, J (2000), Livy's Exemplary History (Oxford)
Ed. Hornblower, Simon, and Antony Spawforth (2003), The Oxford Classical Dictionary (Oxford)
Feldherr, A (1998), Spectacle and Society in Livy's History (Berkeley and London)
Jaeger, M (1997), Livy's Written Rome (Ann Arbor)
Kamm, Antony (1995), The Romans (London)
Kraus, C S and Woodman, A J (1997), Latin Historians (Oxford)
Lipovsky, James P (1984), A Historiographical Study of Livy: Books VI-X
Luce, T J (1977), Livy: The Composition of his History (Princeton)
Mackail, J.W. (1895), Latin Literature (New York)
Miles, Gary B. Livy: Reconstructing Early Rome. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997 (paperback, ISBN 0-8014-8426-X).
Oakley, S P (1997), A Commentary on Livy, Books VI-X (Oxford)
Ogilvie, R M (1965), A Commentary on Livy Books 1 to 5 (Oxford)

Notes External links

Ab Urbe Condita (Latin)
The History of Rome

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