LIVY

born 59/64 BC, Patavium, Venetia, Italy died AD 17, , Patavium Latin in full Titus Livius with Sallust and Tacitus, one of the three great Roman historians. His history of Rome became a classic in his own lifetime and exercised a profound influence on the style and philosophy of historical writing down to the 18th century. Additional reading Texts. Books 110, 2135 have been edited and published in the Oxford Classical Series; the other books are in course of preparation. The complete text of surviving books and fragments has been published in the Teubner Series. Translations. Books 15 and 2130 have been translated by A. de Selincourt and published in the Penguin Classics, with complete text and translation in the Loeb Classical Library. Commentaries. Books 15 by R.M. Ogilvie (1965), with bibliography. Individual books have been edited with commentaries in the Macmillan Series. Complete commentary on the surviving books by W. Weissenborn, rev. by H.J. Muller (18781910). Studies. P.G. Walsh, Livy: His Historical Aims and Methods (1961), with bibliography; J. Briscoe et al., Livy (1971); T.J. Luce, Livy: The Composition of His History (1977).