Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita

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Latin prose Roman historiography historical work

Livy’s *Ab Urbe Condita* is a monumental multi-volume history of Rome written in Latin, tracing the city’s legendary founding through the early empire and shaping later European views of Roman history and virtue.

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All labels observed (10)

Label	Occurrences
Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita canonical	32
Ab Urbe Condita	8
Livy, Ab Urbe Condita	2
Books 1–10 of Ab Urbe Condita	1
Dionysius of Halicarnassus’s Roman Antiquities	1
Livy's history of Rome	1
Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita (as a character in early Roman history)	1
Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita, Book 8	1
works of Livy	1
writings of Livy	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Latin prose ⓘ Roman historiography ⓘ historical work ⓘ
associatedPlace	Rome ⓘ
author	Livy ⓘ
centralTheme	Roman virtue ⓘ moral exempla ⓘ rise and decline of states ⓘ
coversPeriodFrom	legendary founding of Rome ⓘ
coversPeriodTo	early Roman Empire ⓘ
dedicatedTo	none explicitly stated ⓘ
features	accounts of Roman kings ⓘ accounts of Roman wars ⓘ biographical sketches of Roman leaders ⓘ history of the Roman Republic ⓘ legendary narratives about Rome’s origins ⓘ
genre	annalistic history ⓘ history ⓘ
hasReception	central text in medieval education ⓘ major source for modern Roman history ⓘ widely read in Renaissance Europe ⓘ
influenced	Renaissance humanism ⓘ early modern political thought ⓘ later European views of Roman history ⓘ
intendedFunction	moral instruction ⓘ patriotic celebration of Rome ⓘ
literaryPeriod	Augustan age ⓘ
narrativeStyle	continuous year-by-year narrative ⓘ
originalTitleLanguage	Latin ⓘ
politicalContext	reign of Augustus ⓘ
portraysFigure	Augustus ⓘ Cincinnatus ⓘ Hannibal (Carthaginian general) ⓘ surface form: Hannibal Julius Caesar ⓘ Numa Pompilius ⓘ Romulus ⓘ Scipio Africanus ⓘ
preservationStatus	partially lost ⓘ
subject	history of Rome ⓘ
survivingPortions	continuous books 1–10 ⓘ continuous books 21–45 ⓘ fragments of other books ⓘ
timeOfComposition	early 1st century CE ⓘ late 1st century BCE ⓘ
titleTranslation	From the Founding of the City ⓘ
usesSourceType	archival records ⓘ earlier Roman annalists ⓘ oral traditions ⓘ
writtenIn	prose ⓘ

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