Titus Livy - Livy: The Early History of Rome, Books I-V

THE EARLY HISTORY OF ROME

TITUS LIVIUS was born in 59 BC at Patavium (Padua) but later moved to Rome. He lived in an eventful age but little is known about his life, which seems to have been occupied exclusively in literary work. When he was aged about thirty he began to write his History of Rome, consisting of 142 books of which thirty-five survive. He continued working on it for over forty years until his death in AD 17.

AUBREY DE SLINCOURT, scholar and translator, translated Livys The Early History of Rome (Books I-V) and The War with Hannibal (Books XXI-XXX), The Histories of Herodotus and The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian, all for Penguin Classics. He was born in 1896 and educated at the Dragon School, Oxford, at Rugby, and at University College, Oxford. A schoolmaster of genius for twenty-six years, he retired in 1947 to the Isle of Wight where he lived until his death in 1962.

ROBERT OGILVIE was born in 1932 and educated at Rugby and at Balliol College, Oxford. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, from 1955 to 1957 and of Balliol from 1957 to 1970. He was headmaster of Tonbridge School from 1970 to 1975 and subsequently Professor of Humanity at the University of St Andrews until his death in November 1981.

His publications include commentaries on the Roman authors Livy and Tacitus, and books on Roman religion, the history of early Rome and Lactantius. He was a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

STEPHEN OAKLEY was born in 1958 and was educated at Bradfield College and Queens College, Cambridge. He is Reader in Classics at the University of Reading. His principal publication is A Commentary on Livy: Books VIX (Oxford University Press, volume one, 1997; volume two, 1998; volume three, forthcoming).

LIVY

Books IV of
The History of Rome from Its Foundations

Translated by

AUBREY DE SLINCOURT

With an Introduction by

R. M. OGILVIE

and a Preface and Additional Material by

S. P. OAKLEY

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This translation first published 1960
Reprinted with a new introduction 1971
Reprinted with additional material 2002
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Introduction copyright R. M. Ogilvie, 1971
Editors Preface and Additional Material S. P. Oakley, 2002
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