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Quintilian on Sallust and Livy
Histos, 2023The argument of a famous passage of Quintilian (2.5.19) on Sallust and Livy has been misinterpreted and does not mean that Livy is an easier read than Sallust.
J.Woodman +2 more
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Contesting Cunctatio: Livy 22.14, Fabius Maximus, and the Problem of Pastoral
The Classical journal, 2021:At Livy 22.14, M. Minucius Rufus' speech against Q. Fabius Maximus exhibits differing interpretations of Latin pastoral's effects. While the Livian narrator highlights the presence of war in Campania, a region of otium, Minucius focuses on Fabius ...
Thomas Biggs
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The-People-Who-Are-Men: Livy’s Book 7 Construction of the Populus Romanus
Syllecta classica, 2021:This article examines Livy’s deployment of women and gendered language in his second pentad, particularly Book 7, and suggests that Livy consciously explored how the shift from an aristocracy of birth towards one of merit reshaped expectations of men’s ...
Jessie H. Clark
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The leges regiae in Livy: Narratological and Stylistic Strategies
Roman Law before the Twelve Tables, 2020This chapter discusses how Livy in his first book presents the leges regiae (some of which can be found exclusively in Ab Urbe condita) in light of the following categories: religious life; civitas’ fundamental institutions; political life; war and army;
M. Rocco
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Quibus Patet Curia: Livy 23.23.6 and the Mid- Republican Aristocracy of Office
, 2020Mid-Republican censors were bound by few formal restrictions in their lectiones of the Senate. So holds the scholarly communis opinio, at any rate, based primarily on Carolus Sigonius’ emendation of Livy 23.23.6.
C. Barber
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Machiavelli's Principio: Political Renewal and Innovation in the Discourses on Livy
The Review of Politics, 2020Although Machiavelli argues that “return to first principles” is a necessary and perhaps even sufficient condition for counteracting political corruption, few scholars have engaged in a sustained textual analysis of Discourses III.1, the chapter in which
Eero Arum
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