A Companion to Livy

A Companion to Livy is a collection of essays representing the most up–to–date international scholarship on the life and works of the Roman historian Livy. Featuring contributions by some of the world’s top contemporary Livian scholars, essays shed important new light on myriad aspects of Livy while exploring the complexity and originality of his monumental study of Roman history and the people of Rome. Collectively, essays offer powerful evidence to support the elevation of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita from a history book to a literary masterpiece centred on a particular moment in time and space—the end of Rome’s civil wars and the establishment of the principate under Augustus—that expresses a unique philosophical approach to history. A ground–breaking new interpretation of Livy’s historical philosophy, one based on a cyclical conception of the life of cities, is also presented for the first time in this collection. Innovative and thought–provoking, A Companion to Livy offers illuminating insights into one of the greatest Roman historians while setting a new standard in contemporary Livian scholarship.

List of Tables List of Maps Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction: Livy Bernard Mineo PART I  Text and Context 1 Livian Manuscript Tradition Marielle de Franchis 2 Historical Context of the Ab Vrbe Condita Barbara Levick PART II Ideological and historical aspects 3 Portraits of Peoples Jacques–Emmanuel Bernard 4 Rome, Magna Graecia and Sicily in Livy from 326 to 200 BC Kathryn Lomas 5 Urban Landscape, Monuments, and the Building of Memory in Livy Mary Jaeger 6 Livy and Religion John Scheid 7 Livy′s Liturgical Order: Systematization in the History Frances Hickson Hahn 8 Livy′s Use of Exempla Jane D. Chaplin 9 Roman Wars and Armies in Livy Yann Le Bohec 10 Livy′s Political and Moral Values and the Principate Bernard Mineo 11 Livy′s Historical Philosophy Bernard Mineo PART III Literary aspects 12 Livy and Indo–European Comparatism Dominique Briquel 13 Livy and the Annalistic Traditionÿ Jürgen von Ungern–Sternberg 14 The Complications of Quellenforschung: The Case of Livy and Fabius Pictor James H. Richardson 15 Livy and the Greek Historians from Herodotus to Dionysius: Some Soundings and Reflections Craige B. Champion 16 Allusions and Intertextuality in Livy′s Third Decade David S. Levene 17 The Composition of the Ab Vrbe Condita : the Case of the First Pentad Ann Vasaly 18 Reading Livy′s Book 5 Stephen P. Oakley Part IV Book 1. The Regal Period 19 Livy′s Narrative of the Regal Period and Historical and Archaeological Facts. Timothy Cornell 20 Livy′s Narrative of the Regal Period: Structure and Ideology Paul–Marius Martin 21 Literary Archetypes for the Regal Period Marianna Scapini 22 The Representation of the Regal Period in Livy Matthew Fox Part V Books 1–5. From Tarquinius Superbus to the siege of Rome by the Gauls (390) 23 Tarquin the Superb and the Proclamation of the Roman Republic Attilio Mastrocinque 24 The Beginnings of the Republic from 509 to 390 Gary Forsythe Part VI Books 6–10. From the Siege of Rome (390 BC) to Sentinum (295) 25 From 390 to Sentinum: Diplomatic and Military Livian History Ghislaine Stouder 26 From 390 to Sentinum: Political and Ideological Aspects Mic hel Humm Part VII Books 21–45. From the Second Punic War to Pydna 27 Rome and Carthage in Livy Dexter Hoyos 28 Livy: Overseas Wars Giovanni Brizzi and Giambattista Cairo 29 The Roman Republic and the Internal Politics between 232–167 BC Klaus Bringmann 30 Livy, Polybius, and the Greek East (Books 31–45) Arthur M. Eckstein Part VIII Books 1–142/150. Periochae 31 The Periochae Luigi Bessone Part IX Reception 32 The Transmission of Livy from the End of the Roman Empire to the Beginning of the 17th century: Distortion or Discovery, a Story of Corruption Pierre Maréchaux

Bernard Mineo is Professor of Latin Literature at the Université de Nantes in Brittany, France. He is the author of a monograph on Livy entitled Tite–Live et l′histoire de Rome (2006), and editor of Book 32 of Livy’s Roman History for the Collection des Universités de France (2003).