The Dawn of the Roman Empire: Books Thirty-One to Forty (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Livy; Yardley, J. C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019283293X ISBN 13: 9780192832931

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2000

Synopsis

"With a single announcement from a herald, all the cities of Greece and Asia had been set free; only an intrepid soul could formulate such an ambitious project, only phenomenal valour and fortune bring it to fruition."
Thus Livy describes the reaction to the Roman commander T.Q. Flamininus' proclamation of the freedom of Greece at the Isthmian games near Corinth in 196 BC. Half a century later Greece was annexed as a province of the Romans who burned the ancient city of Corinth to the ground.
Books 31 to 40 of Livy's history chart Rome's emergence as an imperial nation and the Romans tempestuous involvement with Greece, Macedonia and the near East in the opening decades of the second century BC; they are our most important source for Graeco-Roman relations in that century. Livy's dramatic narrative includes the Roman campaigns in Spain and against the Gallic tribes of Northern Italy; the flight of Hannibal from Carthage and his death in the East; the debate on the Oppian law; and the Bacchanalian Episode.
This is the only unabridged English translation of Books 31 to 40.

About this title

About the Author:

Titus Livius (c. 59 BC-AD 17), known as Livy in English, wrote a monumental history of Rome, Ab Urbe Condita, from its founding (traditionally dated to 753 BC) through the reign of Augustus. J. C. Yardley is at University of Ottawa. Waldemar Heckel is at University of Calgary.

Review:

Altogether [Yardley and Heckel] have combined their efforts to produce an exemplary volume which, as the only modern unabridged English translation of Livy 31-40, will do much to promote a renewed interest in this decade of Livy among both students and scholars. * John Jacobs, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 019283293X
• ISBN 13: 9780192832931
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 656
• Editor: Heckel Waldemar