A Companion To Livy

Eilis Loftus
Sunday 11 July 2021

Edited by Bernard Mineo

Part I. Text and context — Livian manuscript tradition / Marielle de Franchis — Historical context of the Ab Vrbe 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 Vrbe 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.

Published 2015 by Wiley Blackwell as part of Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

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