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Livy (born 59/64 bc, Patavium, Venetia [now Padua, Italy]—died ad 17, Patavium) was, with Sallust and Tacitus, one of the three great Roman historians. His history of Rome became a classic in his own lifetime and exercised a profound influence on the style and philosophy of historical writing down to the 18th century.
Lavinia, the Italian wife of Aeneas, played an important role in the establishment of Roman power. When Aeneas died, his son Ascanius had not yet reached manhood. At this point of family and political weakness, however, Lavinia stepped in, maintained the imperium for Ascanius, and preserved the Latin state and paternal throne intact for
From entries in Jerome's re-working of the Chronicle of Eusebius we learn that Titus Livius the Patavian was born in 59 B.C., the year of Caesar's first consulship, and died in his native town (the modern Padua) in 17 A.D. Of his parents nothing is known.
1. AB URBE CONDITA: STRUCTURE1. “I feel like someone who wades out into the depths after being initially attracted to the water by the shallows of the sea at the shoreline; and I foresee any advance only taking me into even more enormous, indeed bottomless, depths, and that this undertaking of mine, which seemed to be diminishing as I was ...
40. Then the married women gathered in large 1 numbers at the house of Veturia, the mother of Coriolanus, and Volumnia, his wife.
THE history of the Romans from the foundation of the City to its capture, first under kings, then under consuls, dictators, decemvirs, and consular tribunes, the record of foreign wars and domestic dissensions, has been set forth in the five preceding books.
may be seen in the well-known phrase of dating, ab urbe condita, which for want of an exact definition is often used to identify the construction. Analysis of the words shows that what is really an abstract idea has
