A Companion to Livy

A Companion to Livy features a collection of essays representing the most up-to-date international scholarship on the life and works of the Roman historian Livy.

• Features contributions from top Livian scholars from around the world
• Presents for the first time a new interpretation of Livy's historical philosophy, which represents a key to an overall interpretation of Livy's body of work
• Includes studies of Livy's work from an Indo-European comparative aspect
• Provides the most modern studies on literary archetypes for Livy's narrative of the history of early Rome