A Commentary on Livy, Books VI-X: Volume I: Introduction and Book VI

ISBN-13: 9780198152774

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Opis

Books VI-X of Livy's history of Rome describe the beginnings of Rome's conquest of Italy in the fourth century BC and contain some of Livy's finest writing. The first of three volumes, this book offers an extensive introduction and commentary to Book VI. The introduction provides a full analysis of the Roman annalistic tradition, of Livy's style and narrative technique, and of the manuscript tradition; the commentary devotes equal attention to historical, literary, linguistic, and textual matters.

Recenzje

a splendid achievement, a worthy successor to Ogilvie's in every respect, one that will immediately take its place as a major source of reference for matters far beyond the second pentad or Livy's oeuvre as a whole. Latinists well find a mine of information on matters of style and language, including judicious remarks on what can properly be designated choice, poetic, archaic, mannered, and so forth. Historians will find much of value in O.'s broad introductiory survey and detailed notes ... a full and balanced account of the Roman annalistic tradition, including narrative techniques, rhetorical aims, and debt to Hellenistic historiography ... O.'s overview of the nature and growth of annalistic history is the most useful known to me.