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.

Aliases (3)

Statements (49)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Latin prose writer
Roman author
ancient Roman historian
birthPlace Cisalpine Gaul
Italy
Padua
Patavium
booksSurvivingRange Books 1–10 of Ab Urbe Condita
Books 21–45 of Ab Urbe Condita (partially)
citizenship Ancient Rome
Roman Republic
cognomen Livius
contemporaryOf Augustus
Virgil
deathPlace Padua
Patavium
era Augustan age
fieldOfWork Roman history
historiography
fullName Titus Livius
gender male
givenName Titus
hasLostWorks yes
influenced 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 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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