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 ...
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 ...
At last.
Hannibal or scipio?
This one comes Highly Recommended. ; )
stopped on pg 297 - to be picked up again ... later
This 'History of Rome' is proving to be much more entertaining than I expected. It reads much more like an exciting storybook than 'history'. The recurrent themes from two millennia ago are still relevant to this day, and the speeches Livy quotes are compelling and eloquent. The continuous strife, e...
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