Livy

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Livy was a renowned Roman historian best known for his monumental work "Ab Urbe Condita," which chronicled the history of Rome from its legendary founding through his own time.

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Surface form Occurrences
Livius 1
Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita 1
Titus Livius 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Latin prose writer
Roman author
ancient Roman historian
birthPlace Cisalpine Gaul
Italy
Padua
Patavium
booksSurvivingRange Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
surface form: Books 1–10 of Ab Urbe Condita

Books 21–45 of Ab Urbe Condita (partially)
citizenship Roman Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Rome

Roman Republic
cognomen Livy self-linksurface differs
surface form: Livius
contemporaryOf Augustus
Virgil
deathPlace Padua
Patavium
era Augustan age
fieldOfWork Roman history
historiography
fullName Livy self-linksurface differs
surface form: Titus Livius
gender male
givenName Titus
hasLostWorks yes
influenced Niccolò Machiavelli
surface form: Machiavelli

Quintilian
Renaissance political thought
Roman historiography
Tacitus
influencedBy Polybius
Roman annalists
knownFor account of the Second Punic War
detailed narrative of early Roman legends
moralizing interpretation of Roman history
patriotic depiction of Rome
languageOfWorkOrName Latin
notableWork Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
surface form: Ab Urbe Condita
numberOfBooksPlanned 142
numberOfBooksSurviving 35
occupation historian
teacher
patronageContext reign of Augustus
politicalRole non-political man of letters
religion traditional Roman religion
workChronicles from the legendary founding of Rome
history of Rome
to his own lifetime
workTitleTranslation Ab Urbe Condita = From the Founding of the City
writingStyle annalistic history
rhetorical prose

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subject surface form: Ab Urbe Condita
Latin classicalAuthors Livy
Livy cognomen Livy self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Livius
Cacus describedBy Livy
Marrucini describedBy Livy
subject surface form: Hannibal
this entity surface form: Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Livy fullName Livy self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Titus Livius
Tacitus influencedBy Livy
Mago Barca knownFrom Livy
Aetolians mentionedBy Livy
Antium mentionedBy Livy
Aurunci mentionedBy Livy
Bruttians mentionedBy Livy
Bruttium mentionedBy Livy
Lusitanians mentionedBy Livy
Picenum mentionedBy Livy
Rostra mentionedBy Livy
Sidicini mentionedBy Livy
Volsci mentionedBy Livy