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Livy on the Hannibalic War (Hardcover)
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Livy on the Hannibalic War (Hardcover)
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Livy's account of the Hannibalic War in his Third Decade (Books
21-30) is our fullest source for one of the most crucial wars of
all time; it is also a narrative history of unparalleled richness,
drama, and depth. D. S. Levene's book, the first large-scale
general study of Livy's Third Decade, explores the things that make
it distinctive not only within Livy's writing, but also within all
ancient historiography. Levene examines such topics as Livy's
construction of his narrative, his source-material and use of
literary allusion, his battle scenes, his sophisticated but
ambivalent attitudes towards non-Romans, and above all his
challenging and revolutionary treatment of such things as
chronology, causation, and indeed human character. Livy portrays a
world in which military calculation and human reason constantly
fail, a world in which events occur beyond normal human
comprehension, but where everything is governed by a hidden moral
structure. Livy's unique and original approach to history has often
been misunderstood; Levene demonstrates the powerful and
independent vision underlying the work, and compels readers to
rethink many of our standard presuppositions about the nature of
history-writing in the ancient world.
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