Livy: Ab urbe condita Book VI

Book VI of Livy's history of Rome covers the period from 390 to 367 BC; the serious civil disturbance, and consequent changes to social structure.

Livy (Author), Christina Shuttleworth Kraus (Edited by)

9780521422383, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 17 November 1994

368 pages, 1 map
18.6 x 12.3 x 2.5 cm, 0.385 kg

Book VI of Livy's Ab urbe condita covers the history of Rome from 390 to 367 BC, a period during which the city, while in the process of recovering from being sacked by the Gauls, faced serious civil disturbance, the resolution of which fundamentally changed the structure of Roman society. This edition considers the historical text from a literary and historiographical perspective: the Commentary contains a detailed analysis of Livy's narrative style and structure, with particular focus on his language and use of commonplaces, while the Introduction discusses the didactic nature of the Ab urbe condita and situates Livy's sophisticated and challenging work in the ancient historiographical tradition. Special attention is paid to the role of the reader, and to the relationship between the style and the kind of history being written. Issues of contemporary Augustan politics are also discussed.

Introduction: 1. Livy: life and works
2. Livian historiography
3. Language and style
4. Ab urbe condita VI
TITI LIVI AB VRBE CONDITA LIBER SEXTVS
Commentary.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]