A Companion to Livy

Features a collection of essays representing the most up-to-date international scholarship on the life and works of the Roman historian Livy.

Features contributions from top Livian scholars from around the world

Presents for the first time a new interpretation of Livy’s historical philosophy, which represents a key to an overall interpretation of Livy’s body of work

Includes studies of Livy’s work from an Indo-European comparative aspect

Provides the most modern studies on literary archetypes for Livy’s narrative of the history of early Rome