Hackett Classics: The History of Rome, Books 1-5 (Paperback)

from pandoragreen

Books 1-5, Covers founding of the city, explusion of the Kings, founding of the Republic, etc. From approx 753BC to 390BC. Pretty dry stuff. I'm not terribly fond of Livy's style of writing.

from philae_02

Livy's History depicts the founding of Rome (before it was a Republic) and the legends that the city was founded on. Livy provides a very fun illustration of the early kings of Rome, which leads to it becoming a Republic.

from rocko

As I feared the original is not as good as the later summaries. Most of the work is familiar since I have read later authors who used Livy as a source. The original work suffers from translation. I would recommend Gibbon's retelling of Livy in "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". His prose is ...

from stillatim

I'm going to read as much of Livy as I can stomach over the summer. My stomach comes into it because I don't have the patience for or the interest in military hijinx to see me through every page. And I fear that this volume is setting a high bar for those to follow. There's war here, sure, but a ...

from antiquary

Scholars now say it's legendary, but these are the stories every Roman knew --and every educated European or American until lately