A Companion to Livy by Mineo, Bernard

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A better half to Livy encompasses a selection of essays representing the main up to date foreign scholarship at the lifestyles and works of the Roman historian Livy.

  • Features contributions from best Livian students from round the world
  • Presents for the 1st time a brand new interpretation of Livy's historic philosophy, which represents a key to an total interpretation of Livy's physique of work
  • Includes reviews of Livy's paintings from an Indo-European comparative aspect
  • Provides the main glossy experiences on literary archetypes for Livy's narrative of the historical past of early Rome

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The fact that Livy is unaware of the third closure of the temple—in 25 BC—seems to imply that this event had not yet occurred. 7), Livy seems to be alluding to Augustus’ refusal to allow Licinius Crassius, who was proconsul in 27 BC, to lay the spolia opima in the temple to Jupiter Feretrius on July 4, 27 BC. However, what appears to be the determining factor is the use, by Livy, when describing the closure of the temple to Janus in 29 BC, of Augustus’ official title (Cæsare Augusto), which Octavian was only to be granted in January 27 BC.

Special thanks to Josette Florent, to Prof. L. Bessone’s anonymous translator, and to Anne-Nolwenn Mineo-Briand, my wife. Bernard Mineo Nantes (Brittany) January 2014 REFERENCES Bayet, J. and Baillet, G. 1947. Tite-Live. Histoire Romaine, Livre I . Paris: CUF. Burck, E. 1992. Das Geschichtswerk des Titus Livius. Heidelberg: C. Winter. Hurlet, H. , eds. 2009. Le Principat d’Auguste. Rennes: PUR. Laistner M. L. W. 1947. The Greater Roman Historians. Berkeley: University of California Press. Luce, T.

He had combined the genealogical principle with Andreas Frigell’s appealing hypothesis of a geographical classification of manuscripts, now obsolete with our improved knowledge of medieval scriptoria. Frigell had suggested in 1875 (reference in Reeve 1996c, 75, n. 3) about distinguishing between the witnesses, which went back to an Italian model (cisalpine) as opposed to a Gallic one (transalpine). Bayet’s genealogical classification was later reconsidered by Robert Ogilvie (1957), and then simplified in his edition (1974).

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