Hannibal's Crossing of the Alps
By Livy
1995
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In 218 BC, according to Livy's account, the mighty Carthaginian commander Hannibal rallied his army to march from Spain across the Alps and into Italy. It was a hazardous journey, requiring tremendous fortitude from his soldiers, but Hannibal's tactical precision and zeal guided them successfully—elephants and all—over the final obstacle to Italian soil.
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Livy
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Titus Livius (Patavinus) (64 or 59 BC – AD 17)—known as Livy in English, and Tite-Live in French—was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people – Ab Urbe Condita Libri (Books from the Foundation of the City) – covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional foundation in 753 BC through the reign of Augustus in Livy's own time. He was on familiar terms with the Julio-Claudian dynasty, advising Augustus' grandnephew, the future emperor Claudius, as a young man not long before 14 AD in a letter to take up the writing of history. Livy and Augustus' wife, Livia, were from the same clan in different locations, although not related by blood.
