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HANNIBAL’S WAR
books twenty-one to thirty
Titus Livius (Livy), the historian, was born in Patavium (mod-
ern Padua) in
64
or
59 bc
and died in
ad 12
or
17
in Patavium,
surviving therefore into his late seventies or early eighties. He came
to Rome in the
30s bc
and began writing his history of Rome not
long after. There is no evidence that he was a senator or held other
governmental posts, although he was acquainted with the emperor
Augustus and his family, at least by his later years. He appears to
have had the means to spend his life largely in writing his huge
history of Rome,
Ab Urbe Condita
or ‘From the Foundation of the
City’, which
filled 142
books and covered the period from Rome’s
founding to the death of the elder Drusus (753–9
bc).
Thirty-five
books survive:
1–10
(753–293
bc)
and
21–45
(218–167
bc).
J. C. Yardley has been Professor and Head of Classics at the
Universities of Calgary and Ottawa and is a former President of the
Classical Association of Canada. He has also translated
The Dawn of
the Roman Empire
(Books
31–40
of Livy’s history) for Oxford
World’s Classics, as well as Quintus Curtius’
History of Alexander
for Penguin Classics (1984) and Justin for the American Philological
Association Classical Resources series (1994) and (Books
11–12)
for
the Clarendon Ancient History series (1997). His most recent books
are
Justin and Pompeius Trogus
(2003) and (with Waldemar Heckel)
Alexander the Great
(2004).
Dexter Hoyos was born in Barbados, studied at Oxford, and
teaches Roman history and historians, and Latin, at Sydney Uni-
versity. His most recent publications include
Unplanned Wars
(1998), on the causes of the
first
two Punic Wars, and
Hannibal’s
Dynasty: Power and Politics in the Western Mediterranean
247–183
B.C.
(2003).
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OXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS
LIVY
Hannibal’s War
Books Twenty-One to Thirty
Translated by
J. C. YARDLEY
With an Introduction and Notes by
DEXTER HOYOS
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