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Titus Livius (Latin: [ˈtɪtʊs ˈliːwiʊs]; 59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy (/ ˈ l ɪ v i / LIV-ee), was a Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled Ab Urbe Condita, ''From the Founding of the City'', covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional founding in 753 BC through the reign of Augustus in Livy's own ...
The History of Rome originally comprised 142 "books", 35 of which—Books 1–10 with the Preface and Books 21–45—still exist in reasonably complete form. [1] Damage to a manuscript of the 5th century resulted in large gaps in Books 41 and 43–45 (small lacunae exist elsewhere); that is, the material is not covered in any source of Livy's text.
Titus Livius tragoediarum scriptor clarus habetur, qui ob ingenii meritum a Livio Salinatore, cuius liberos erudiebat, libertate donatus est. Titus Livius, author of tragedies, is held to be outstanding. He was given liberty by Livius Salinator, whose children he was educating, by merit of his intelligence. Jerome is the only author to name him ...
' Discourses on the First Ten of Titus Livy ') is a work of political history and philosophy written in the early 16th century (c. 1517) by the Italian writer and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli, best known as the author of The Prince.
Titus Livius (59 BC–AD 17), historian usually referred to as Livy in English Titus Pomponius Atticus (110/109 BC–35/32 BC), philosopher and friend of Marcus Tullius Cicero Titus Quinctius Flamininus (c. 229 BC–174 BC), politician and general instrumental in the Roman conquest of Greece
The abundance of details clearly distinguishes the Viri illustres from the late antique breviaries and compendia. Although researchers have long attributed the Viri illustres to the Livian tradition, it is now assumed that it is an independent historical tradition independent of the historiography of Titus Livius, for which a template from the Late Republic can be deduced, which worked with ...
Libby Titus, a singer who recorded two albums in the late 1960s and ’70s before retiring from the music scene, later becoming the wife of Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen, died Sunday at age 77. No ...
Livy compared the story of Verginia's death to the rape of Lucretia, whose death led to the overthrow of the Roman monarchy in 509 BC.Modern historians view the stories of Roman women such as Verginia and Lucretia as supporting traditional Roman values through the women's displays of feminine virtue and symbolization of criticisms against the tyrannical Roman government. [6]