SCRIPTURA
Titus Livius, engraving
Titus Livius, engraving · Wikimedia Commons

Author

Livy

59 BC–AD 17 · Historian

A man of Padua who spent forty years writing the history of Rome from its founding to his own day in 142 books, of which 35 survive. Augustus called him a Pompeian and remained his friend.

On the shelf

Read Livy.

4 works

The surviving books of the History of Rome (I–X and XXI–XLV), in Latin beside the Loeb English.

Explore the library →