"People have it in their minds that he would have been a match for Alexander, had Alexander turned his arms on Europe." Here is a superb new translation of Books 6 to 10 of Livy's monumental history of Rome, covering the period when Rome, in a series of ever greater wars, imposed mastery over virtually the entire Italian peninsula. Livy paints vivid portraits of all the notable figures, such as young Manlius Torquatus, victor in a David-versus-Goliath duel with a Gallic chieftain, and Appius Claudius who built Rome's first major highway, the Appian Way. Livy's blend of factual...
"People have it in their minds that he would have been a match for Alexander, had Alexander turned his arms on Europe." Here is a superb new trans...