By Rachel Feig Vishina Abstract: Vishnia provides an account of the apparently contradictory evidence in literature from both the Republican and Imperial periods and then tries to divine who the lixae were. Ultimately,…
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 —…
By Joanna Kenty Abstract: In narrating Rome’s victory over Capua in the Hannibalic War, Livy engages substantially with Cicero’s three orations De Lege Agraria as an intertext, and in particular with Cicero’s argument…
By C.S. Kraus and A.J. Woodman Abstract: In recent decades there has been a complete revolution in the way we read the historians of Greece and Rome. Their works have been shown to be quite different in nature from…
By Joy Connolly Abstract: In his 1864 book La Cité antique, Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges warned against glorifying ancient narratives of civil government in the fashion of revolutionaries like Robespierre and…