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Livy

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

Life

The life of Titus Livius (or Livy, to use his more common English name), is not well known. Almost everything we know about the author of the voluminous History of Rome from its foundation is derived from a handful of anecdotes recorded by later authors, who may have found them in a (now lost) book by the Roman biographer Suetonius called Historians and philosophers. Nevertheless, we know something about Livy's life, and that is more than we can say about several other important ancient authors (e.g., Homer).

The Christian author Jerome, an excellent chronographer, states that Livy was born in 59 BCE and died in 17 CE. There is no evidence to contradict this piece of information. It makes Livy a near contemporary of the Roman politician Octavian, who was born in 63, became sole ruler of the Roman empire in 31, accepted the surname Augustus in 27, and died in 14 CE.

That Livy was born in Patavium (modern Padua) is clear from his o

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History of Rome (Livy)

First-century BC Roman history by Livy

This article is about a work sometimes referred to as Ab Urbe Condita. For the dating convention used for Roman history, see Ab Urbe Condita.

The History of Rome, perhaps originally titled Annales, and frequently referred to as Ab Urbe Condita (English: From the Founding of the City),^[1] is a monumental history of ancient Rome, written in Latin between 27 and 9 BC by the Roman historian Titus Livius, better known in English as "Livy".^[a] The work covers the period from the legends concerning the arrival of Aeneas and the refugees from the fall of Troy, to the city's founding in 753 BC, the expulsion of the Kings in 509 BC, and down to Livy's own time, during the reign of the emperor Augustus.^[b]^[c] The last event covered by Livy is the death of Drusus in 9 BC.^[1] 35 of 142 books, about a quarter of the work, are still extant.^[3] The surviving books deal with the events down to 293 BC (books 1–10), and from 219 to 166 B

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Livy

Roman historian (59 BC – AD 17)

For people with the given name or nickname, see Livy (given name).

Titus Livius (Latin:[ˈtɪtʊsˈliːwiʊs]; 59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy (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 lifetime. He was on good terms with members of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and was a friend of Augustus,^[1] whose young grandnephew, the future emperor Claudius, he encouraged to take up the writing of history.^[2]

Life

Livy was born in Patavium in northern Italy, now modern Padua, probably in 59 BC.^[ii] At the time of his birth, his home city of Patavium was the second wealthiest on the Italian peninsula, and the largest in the province of Cisalpine Gaul (northern Italy). Cisalpine Gaul was merged in Italy proper during his lifetime and its inhabit