The first five books of Livy's history of early Rome recount the great stories and moments of Roman history. From Romulus and Remus, to the rape of Lucretia, to Horatius at the bridge, Livy's massive work immortalizes the events which both defined early Roman civilization and helped to shape our cultural heritage. This new annotated translation includes both maps and an index, making it the most complete and up-to-date edition available.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Latin
Original Language: Latin
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T. J. Luce is Kennedy Professor of Latin Emeritus at Princeton University.
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This review is from: The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five (Oxford World's Classics) (Bks. 1-5) (Paperback)
Professor Luce has done an admirable service to students of ancient history with his new translation of Livy. In addition to the able and idiomatic translation, the volume possesses very helpful but not overly cumbersome explanatory notes. Students in my introductory ancient history course appreciated both the lively content of Rome's founding mythology and the quality of the edition.
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an immortal classic in superb translation,
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The book itself is, of course, an immortal classic; I can read it reasonably well in the original Latin, myself (being Italian and having received a good classical education before college), but I've long been searching for a suitable English edition to recommend to my American family and friends -- and with this one, I've finally found it! It reads as smoothly as one could hope and loses nothing of the original's flavour. A practical counterexample to the traditional quip about translations being like women -- either beautiful, or faithful -- this book (like my wife!-) is both at the same time!-)
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boring book for class,
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This review is from: The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five (Oxford World's Classics) (Bks. 1-5) (Paperback)
I had to read this for a Roman history class and the class and the book were both pretty boring. As a side note don't take any class that requires this if you don't want to be completely confused because it seems like everyone has the same name
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1. There is general agreement, first of all, that when Troy fell the Greeks punished the other Trojans mercilessly but refrained from exercising any right of conquest in the cases of two men, Aeneas and Antenor, who were connected to them by long-standing ties of guest friendship and had always advocated the return of Helen. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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1. There is general agreement, first of all, that when Troy fell the Greeks punished the other Trojans mercilessly but refrained from exercising any right of conquest in the cases of two men, Aeneas and Antenor, who were connected to them by long-standing ties of guest friendship and had always advocated the return of Helen. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
military tribunes with consular power, elected military tribunes, next consuls, senatorial leadership, pater patratus, same tribunes, fetial priests, plebeian tribunes, older senators, named dictator, consular elections, other tribunes, laden with booty, senate decreed, other consul, plundering raid, curule chair, senatorial decree, new consuls, leading senators Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Appius Claudius, Titus Quinctius, Quintus Fabius, Publius Valerius, Lucius Valerius, Quintus Servilius, Servius Tullius, Aulus Postumius, Lucius Furius Medullinus, Lucius Tarquinius, Ancient Latins, Lucius Quinctius, Gaius Claudius, Sacred Mount, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Marcus Fabius, Marcus Valerius, Campus Martius, Gaius Sempronius, Gnaeus Cornelius, Gaius Servilius Ahala, Jupiter Feretrius, Lake Regillus, Lucius Lucretius, Lucius Minucius New!
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