Livy
By Livy
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Part I of Livy's great history of Rome covering the 'mythical' period from the arrival of Aeneas in Italy, including the founding of Alba Longa and Rome, and the prioed of Kingship up to the banishment of the Tarquins and election of the first consuls. This edition with its annotation, vocabulary and introduction, aims to elucidate essential points of content but, more importantly, to provide all the linguistic tools needed for the student to read the text with comparative ease.
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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.
