Livy, History of Rome, 14 vol. / Loeb Classical Library

Loeb Classical Library, Titus Livius, (The history of Rome / Ab urbe condita / Histoire romaine). In fourteen volumes. 

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  • Condition / Etat: very good, dust jacket with minor shelf wear / très bon état, minimes traces d'usures.
  • Volumes : 14 volumes.
  • Illustrations : 55 mostly folded and coloured maps, 55 cartes dépliantes.
  • Binding / Reliure : original red titled cloth with fine dust jacket, cartonné avec jaquette.
  • Format : In-16 / 17 x 11 cm.
  • Pages : about 5000 pp.
  • Editor : Cambridge, Harvard University Press / London, Heinemann.
  • Date : 1967 - 1989.
  • Language / Langue: Latin and English on opposite pages / Bilingue latin et anglais.

    Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BCE; he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in 12 or 17 CE.
    Livy’s only extant work is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9 BCE. Of its 142 books, we have just 35, and short summaries of all the rest except two. The whole work was, long after his death, divided into “decades” or series of ten. Books 1–10 we have entire; books 11–20 are lost; and books 21–45 are entire, except parts of 41 and 43–45. Of the rest only fragments and the summaries remain. In splendid style, Livy—a man of wide sympathies and proud of Rome’s past—presented an uncritical but clear and living narrative of the rise of Rome to greatness.
    The Loeb Classical Library edition of Livy is in fourteen volumes. The last volume includes a comprehensive index.

    The Loeb Classical Library® is the only existing series of books which, through original text and English translation, gives access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church fathers who made particular use of pagan culture—in short, our entire classical heritage is represented here in convenient and well-printed pocket volumes in which an up-to-date text and accurate and literate English translation face each other page by page. The editors provide substantive introductions as well as essential critical and explanatory notes and selective bibliographies.



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Condition Used - Very Good
Language United Kingdom
Illustrated No
Publicaton Date Jan 1, 1967
Year 1967
Author / Cartographer / Photographer Livy
Editor Harvard University Press
First edition No
Signed edition No
Signed binding No
Armorial binding No
Binding / Format Hardcover
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