A Companion to Livy (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1118301285 ISBN 13: 9781118301289

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

Synopsis

A Companion to Livy features a collection of essays representing the most up-to-date international scholarship on the life and works of the Roman historian Livy. Features contributions from top Livian scholars from around the world Presents for the first time a new interpretation of Livy's historical philosophy, which represents a key to an overall interpretation of Livy's body of work Includes studies of Livy's work from an Indo-European comparative aspect Provides the most modern studies on literary archetypes for Livy's narrative of the history of early Rome

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From the Back Cover:

A COMPANION TO
LIVY
EDITED BY BERNARD MINEO

A Companion to Livy is a collection of chapters representing the most up-to-date international scholarship on the life and works of the Roman historian Livy. Featuring contributions by some of the world's top contemporary Livian scholars, the chapters shed important new light on myriad aspects of Livy while exploring the complexity and originality of his monumental study of Roman history and the people of Rome. Collectively, the chapters offer powerful evidence to support the elevation of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita from a history book to a literary masterpiece centered on a particular moment in time and space--the end of Rome's civil wars and the establishment of the principate under Augustus--that expresses a unique philosophical approach to history. A groundbreaking new interpretation of Livy's historical philosophy, one based on a cyclical conception of the life of cities, is also presented for the first time in this collection. Innovative and thought-provoking, A Companion to Livy offers illuminating insights on one of the greatest Roman historians while setting a new standard in contemporary Livian scholarship.

About the Author:

THE EDITOR Bernard Mineo is Professor of Latin Literature at the Universite de Nantes in Brittany, France. He is the author of a monograph on Livy entitled Tite-Live et l'histoire de Rome (2006), and editor of Book 32 of Livy's Roman History for the Collection des Universites de France (2003).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1118301285
• ISBN 13: 9781118301289
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Mineo Bernard