A Livy Reader: Selections from Ab Urbe Condita

Product Description

The appeal of Livy, the great historian of the Augustan age, lies both in his riveting storytelling and in the sophistication, clarity, and accessibility of his prose. Aiming to preserve the memory of Rome's achievements and morally rejuvenate his contemporaries, Livy takes readers on a tour of Rome's past as he thinks deeply about historiography, its uses, and its challenges.
Selections in this volume convey the liveliness and variety of Livy's style, with its permutations and combinations of narrative and speech, and with its portrayal of Romans and foreigners, men and women, aristocrats and ex-slaves. Selections include such favorites as the story of Horatius at the Bridge, which inspired the historian Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome and was studied by generations of Latin students, as well as others not often included in readers-such as Livy's account of the so-called ”Bacchic conspiracy.”
Special Features
* Introduction to Livy, to his work, sources, ideas, artistry, and reception- * 566 lines of unadapted Latin text from Livy's Ab Urbe Condita: Preface 6-10; Book 1: 6.3-7.3; Book 2: 10.1-13, 12.1-16, 13.6-11; Book 7: 9.6-10.14; Book 21: 1.1-2.2, 35.4-12, 40.6-11, 41.13-17, 42-43.10, 44.1-9; Book 22: 51.1-9; Book 39: 9.1-7, 10.1-8, 13.1-14, 15.1-14, 16.1-13- * Notes at the back- * Two maps and one photograph- * Bibliography- * Complete vocabulary-
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Review

Bolchazy-Carducci long has been supplying teachers of all levels with readers of various authors. This book is a welcome addition to that supply. It is one of Bolchazy's Latin Reader series that includes Apuleius, Caesar, Lucan, Martial, and epics, as well as some topical editions, e.g., women, the military, etc.; the title page of Jaeger's book reports that nineteen editions are planned. The Livy edition is a slim volume with little adornment that includes eighteen selections. The readings are presented in order by decade, including one from the preface. Also included are notes, two maps, and a glossary, all of which follow the text.
I do commend Jaeger for providing a full sense of Livy's breadth; too often readings in Livy are confined to the stories of the first decade made so famous by generations of later visual artists. Jaeger's inclusion of the Punic wars and the Bacchic ‘conspiracy' (her quotations), in addition to some old favorites from the first decade, will allow students and teachers to experience Livy and his Roman history in its different incarnations.
The introduction includes seven headed sections: Livy's life and times; Livy's work, subject and scope; Livy's sources; ideas; Livy's artistry; reception; and suggested reading. Jaeger makes the economy of the format effective. Each section includes a wealth of useful and interesting information in a relatively small space. In the section on Livy's artistry, for instance, Jaeger manages both to outline the literary tradition within which Livy was writing and to develop specifically how his use of participles represents a departure from that tradition, providing readers with both the broad view of Livy as an author and a specific feature of his writing.
The notes for each section open with a prefatory de