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 ...

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.

2024年10月28日 · Titus Livius, commonly known as Livy, was one of the greatest historians of ancient Rome. His monumental work, Ab Urbe Condita (From the Founding of the City), chronicles the history of Rome from its legendary beginnings to his contemporary period during the reign of Augustus.

Titus Livius or Livy (59 BCE - 17 CE): Roman historian, author of the authorized version of the history of the Roman republic.

Livy as a Historian (Collingwood 1946: 43-44) Livy set himself the task of writing a history of Rome. Now a modern historian would have interpreted this as meaning a history of how Rome came to be what it is, a history of the process which brought into existence the characteristic Roman institutions and moulded the typical Roman character.

Livy: Selections from the first five books of Livy's Roman history, with the twenty-first and twenty-second books entire ; with explanatory notes, a plan of Rome, and a map of the passage of Hannibal (D. Appleton and company, 1871), also by John L. Lincoln (page images at HathiTrust)

2020年4月23日 · Livy's purpose in writing his famous history was to show how Rome had started out as a city state full of brave, idealistic and virtuous citizens, but had then descended into the voracious, debauched, and immoral empire it had become …

2014年3月17日 · Livy wrote a 142 volume history of Rome entitled From the Foundation of the City.

2019年3月27日 · The Roman annalistic [year-by-year] historian Titus Livius (Livy), from Patavium (Padua, as it's called in English), the area of Italy in which Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew took place, lived about 76 years, from c. 59 B.C. to c. A.D. 17.

Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BCE; he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in 12 or 17 CE. Livy's only extant work is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9 BCE .