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Rome's Italian Wars - Books 6-10 (Paperback)
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Rome's Italian Wars - Books 6-10 (Paperback)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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'People have it in their minds that he would have been a match for
Alexander, had Alexander turned his arms on Europe.' So Livy
characterizes Papirius Cursor, one of Rome's famous generals in the
fourth century BC. In Books 6 to 10 of his monumental history of
Rome, Livy deals with the period in which Rome recovered from its
Gallic disaster to impose mastery over almost the entire Italian
peninsula in a series of ever greater wars. Along with Papirius,
Livy paints vivid portraits of other notable figures, such as
Camillus, who rescued the city from its Gallic captors in 390,
young Manlius Torquatus, victor in a David-versus-Goliath duel with
a Gallic chieftain, and Appius Claudius who built Rome's first
major highway, the Appian Way. Livy's blend of factual narrative
and imaginative recreation brings to life a critical era for the
rise of Rome, and Books 6 to 10 of his work are the one complete
account we have, as the city passes from myth and legend into the
increasing light of reliable history. John Yardley's fluent
translation is accompanied by an introduction and notes that set
Livy in the context of Roman historiography. The complete Livy in
English, available in five volumes from Oxford World's Classics.
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