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The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 - Livy, D. (Daniel) Spillan

The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five - Livy, T. James Luce, Jim Luce

The History of Rome, Books XXI-XXX: The War With Hannibal - Livy, Aubrey de Sélincourt, Betty Radice

Livy: Book I (Bk. 1) - J.L. Whiteley, Livy, H.E. Gould

The History of Rome, Books I-V: The Early History of Rome - Livy, Aubrey de Sélincourt, Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, S.P. Oakley, Stephen Oakley

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The Early History of Rome: Books I-IV of the History of Rome from its Foundation - Livy, Aubrey de Sélincourt

The History of Rome, Books XXXI-XLV: Rome and the Mediterranean - Livy, Henry Bettenson, A.H. McDonald

The War with Hannibal: Books XXI-XXX of the History of Rome from its Foundation - Livy, Aubrey de Sélincourt

The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five (Oxford World's Classics) (Bks. 1-5) - Livy, T. James Luce

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Julian Meynell's Books rated it

10 years ago

text Livy's Early History of Rome

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 ...

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Julian Meynell's Books rated it

11 years ago

text The History of Rome, Books XXI-XXX: The War With Hannibal

This is the fifth book by an ancient historian that I have read. Livy doesn't have the story telling ability of Herodotus, the commitment to historical insight that Tacitus and Thucyides had, nor the gift for gossip of Suetonius. The book is quite long and bogs down a lot. Having said that, some ...

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