A Companion to Livy /
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...
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2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Text and context
- Livian manuscript tradition / Marielle de Franchis
- Historical context of the Ab Urbe Condita / Barbara Levick
- Part II. Ideological and historical aspects
- Portraits of peoples / Jacques-Emmanuel Bernard
- Rome, Magna Graecia and Sicily in Livy from 326 to 200 BC / Kathryn Lomas
- Urban landscape, monuments, and the building of memory in Livy / Mary Jaeger
- Livy and religion / John Scheid
- Livy's liturgical order: systematization in the history / Frances Hickson Hahn
- Livy's use of exempla / Jane D. Chaplin
- Roman wars and armies in Livy / Yann Le Bohec
- Livy's political and moral values and the principate / Bernard Mineo
- Livy's historical philosophy / Bernard Mineo
- Part III. Literary aspects
- Livy and indo-European comparatism / Dominique Briquel
- Livy and the annalistic tradition / Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg
- The complications of Quellenforschung: the case of Livy and Fabius Pictor / James H. Richardson
- Livy and the Greek historians from Herodotus to Dionysius: some soundings and reflections / Craige B. Champion
- Allusions and intertextuality in Livy's third decade / David S. Levene
- The composition of the Ab Urbe Condita: the case of the First Pentad / Ann Vasaly
- Reading Livy's Book 5 / Stephen P. Oakley
- Part IV. Book 1. The regal period
- Livy's narrative of the regal period and historical and archaeological facts / Timothy Cornell
- Livy's narrative of the regal period: structure and ideology / Paul Marius Martin
- Literary archetypes for the regal period / Marianna Scapini
- The representation of the regal period in Livy / Matthew Fox
- Part V. Books 1-5. From Tarquinius Superbus to the Siege of Rome by the Gauls
- Tarquin the Superb and the proclamation of the Roman Republic / Attilio Mastrocinque
- The beginnings of the Republic from 509 to 390 / Gary Forsythe
- Part VI. Books 6-10. From the Siege of Rome (390 bc) to Sentinum
- From 390 to Sentinum: diplomatic and military Livian history / Ghislaine Stouder
- From 390 to Sentinum: political and ideological aspects / Michel Humm
- Part VII. Books 21-45: from the Second Punic War to Pydna
- Rome and Carthage in Livy / Dexter Hoyos
- Livy: overseas wars / Giovanni Brizzi and Giambattista Cairo
- The Roman Republic and the internal politics between 232-167 BC / Klaus Bringmann
- Livy, Polybius, and the Greek east (Books 31-45) / Arthur M. Eckstein
- Part VIII. Books 1-142/150. Periochae
- The Periochae / Luigi Bessone
- Part IX. Reception
- The transmission of Livy from the end of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the 17th century: distortion or discovery, a story of corruption / Pierre Marchaux.
