HISTORY OF ROME: BOOKS 26-27

LIVY ( Titus Livius) ; YARDLEY, J. C. Editor & Translator

ISBN 10: 0674997352 / ISBN 13: 9780674997356

Published by Loeb Classical Library / Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2020

About this Item

Red cloth binding with Gold colored print on spine and logo on front cover. This is a new translation and organization: The two books were included in a previous, older edition. Tight, sound and unmarked.408 pages including index. Bi-lingual: Latin and English texts on facing pages. Dust jacket is red with Black decorative edge line on front cover. White and black print on spine and front. In mylar. No pricing present.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: HISTORY OF ROME: BOOKS 26-27
• Publisher: Loeb Classical Library / Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: Latin
• ISBN 10: 0674997352
• ISBN 13: 9780674997356
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Thus
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

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Synopsis

Rome, from the beginning.

Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, where after years in Rome he died in AD 12 or 17. Livy’s history, composed as the imperial autocracy of Augustus was replacing the republican system that had stood for over five hundred years, presents in splendid style a vivid narrative of Rome’s rise from the traditional foundation of the city in 753 or 751 BC to 9 BC and illustrates the collective and individual virtues necessary to achieve and maintain such greatness.

Of its 142 books, conventionally divided into pentads and decades, we have 1–10 and 21–45 complete, and short summaries (periochae) of all the rest except 41 and 43–45; 11–20 are lost, and of the rest only fragments and the summaries remain.

The third decade constitutes our fullest surviving account of the momentous Second Punic (or Hannibalic) War, featuring a famous gallery of leaders Roman, Carthaginian, and Greek, all memorably drawn. It comprises two recognizable pentads: Books 21–25 narrate the run-up to conflict and Rome’s struggles in its first phase, with Hannibal dominant; Books 26–30 relate Rome’s revival and final victory, as the focus shifts to Scipio Africanus.

This edition of the third decade, which replaces the original Loeb editions by B. O. Foster (Books 21–22) and Frank Gardner Moore (Books 23–30), offers a text based on the critical editions by John Briscoe (Books 21–25) and P. G. Walsh (Books 26–30), a fresh translation, and ample annotation fully current with modern scholarship.

About the Author

J. C. Yardley is Professor of Classics, Emeritus, at the University of Ottawa.