Ab Urbe Condita: Volume I: Books I-V (Oxford Classical Texts) (Bks.1-5)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780198146612 (0198146612)
ASIN: 198146612
Publish date: December 12th 1974
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
School,
Humanities,
Literature,
College,
Roman,
Ancient,
Mythology,
Classical Studies
Previously I have read Livy's war with Hannibal. At the time I read that I thought that it was OK, because Livy is not a master stylist like Herodotus and lacks the historical insight of a Thucydides or a Tacitus. However, for whatever reason much of the book stuck with me and it is Livy's strength ...
stopped on pg 297 - to be picked up again ... later