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

This magisterial work, to be published in three volumes, is the first full-scale commentary to be written in modern times on this part of Livy's great history of Rome. This first volume conists of the introduction and commentary (not the text) on Book VI, covering the period of Rome's conquest of Italy in the fourth century BC before the Punic Wars.

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. This is the first full-scale, scholarly commentary to be written on this part of the history in modern times. The first of three volumes, this book contains an extensive introduction and the 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. The remaining two volumes, which are forthcoming, will deal with Books VII-VIII and IX-X respectively. An indispensable work of reference for anyone interested in Latin literature and early Roman history, as well as for scholars of Livy himself, these three volumes represent a major new contribution to Latin scholarship.