Livy

« Le sort des villes ennemies dans l’œuvre de Tite-Live : aspects historiographiques »

by Guillaume Flamerie de Lachapelle

publié dans: Revue de Philologie 81(1), 2007, p. 79-110.

Au long de l’Ab Vrbe condita, Tite-Live rend compte du sort des quelque deux cent cinquante villes ennemies tombant... more Au long de l’Ab Vrbe condita, Tite-Live rend compte du sort des quelque deux cent cinquante villes ennemies tombant aux mains des Romains. Que le récit soit, comme dans la plupart des cas, bref, factuel et stéréotypé, qu’il se caractérise par des distorsions temporelles (ellipses, disjonctions, redoublements, diversions) ou qu’il s’enrichisse d’interventions directes du narrateur (explications, notations pathétiques, considérations axiologiques ou historiographiques), deux facteurs président aux choix de Tite-Live en matière de sélection et de présentation de l’information. Il s’agit, d’une part, de la place de cet événement dans l’histoire militaire et morale du peuple romain lui-même, principal objet de l’historien ; d’autre part, du patriotisme du Padouan, qui le pousse à dissimuler ou à atténuer la brutalité de la conquête romaine.
Annexe : relevé des quelque 250 prises et des redditions de villes ennemies.

Livy and the "Lex Hortensia": The Julian Chronology of the Comitial Dates in Livy

by Chris Bennett

Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Bd. 149, (2004), pp. 165-176 (JSTOR)

The Julian phase of the pre-Julian nundinal cycle implied by the model developed in earlier notes allows us to... more The Julian phase of the pre-Julian nundinal cycle implied by the model developed in earlier notes allows us to determine exact Julian dates for certain years covered by Livy, and to significantly restrict the possibilities for some others.

ROMAN MILITARY EXPEDITIONS IN THE SALLENTINE AREA (307 AND 302 B.C.)

by Peuce Journal

Decebal Nedu PEUCE, S.N. IX, 2011, p. 183 - 202

For the year 307 BC, Livy mentions a war waged by the Roman troops in the Sallentine area. Modern historians often... more For the year 307 BC, Livy mentions a war waged by the Roman troops in the Sallentine area. Modern historians often took this episode with suspicion although there are no solid grounds for suspecting its reliability. In all likelihood, the Sallentine campaign was carried out by an expeditionary troop detached from the Roman army that had been operating in Apulia. It was a warning for Tarentum and the Romans might have won allies in the Sallentine region beginning with 307 BC. Following the end of the Second Samnite War, in 303 BC, Tarentum asked the Spartan commander Cleonymus for his help in the war with the Lucanian League. Cleonymus’ intention to create a personal dominion in the South of Italy led to the conflict with Tarentum and his allies in the peninsula. Another Livy’s controversial paragraph tells about the Roman military operations against the Spartan general in the Sallentine area, in 302 BC. Again, there is not enough evidence to reject Livy’s information. Rome could have interfered in order to protect its allies from the South of Tarentum which were under the threat of Cleonymus. Caught between Rome and the Spartan commander, the Dorian colony had to find a diplomatic solution to release the pressure from at least one of the adversaries. The year 302 BC is the most plausible date of the Lacinian treaty, which justified the Tarentine attack against the Roman fleet in 282 BC. This treaty guaranteed that Rome would not interfere in Magna Graecia and Tarentum, in his turn, made concessions, recognizing the external status of the allies that Rome had in Apulia and the Sallentine region.

Lorenzo Valla’s Textual Criticism of Livy

by Cornelia Linde

in Neulateinisches Jahrbuch 12 (2010), pp. 191-224
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“The Era of Patavium Again”

by Jinyu Liu

Published in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE) 162 (2007): 281-289.

"Quite possibly, it was under the early Julio-Claudian dynasty that Patavium adopted a local era; it perhaps... more "Quite possibly, it was under the early Julio-Claudian dynasty that Patavium adopted a local era; it perhaps attributed its long history of stability and prosperity to the effective Roman intervention at the request of the Patavians in 174 BCE, which restored order in the city. Several scholars have argued that local eras were not imposed by the Roman authorities. The Era of Patavium does not contradict this observation. On one hand, the era does not emphasize the fact that city was reduced to a municipal status in the Empire. On the other hand, it does not showcase its alleged antiquity, either. Although all the debates and discussions among the local decurions can only be imagined, it is reasonable to suggest that the choice of the beginning date of the era implies a process of eliminating other dates. As such, the era may have constituted a carefully constructed self-representation, and bore the mark of a negotiated local identity."



Key words: Romanization, Local dating system (era), local identity and Roman Empire, ancient chronology, ancient Padua, Northern Italian cities and Rome

Review of G. Forsythe, Livy and Early Rome: A Study in Historical Method and Judgement. Stuttgart; F. Steiner, 1999. Scholia n.s.9 (2000), 28.

by Alex Nice

Review of J. Davies, Rome’s Religious History. Livy, Tacitus, and Ammianus Marcellinus on their Gods. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. JRS 96 (2006), 248-249.

by Alex Nice

Rome at a gallop: Livy, on not gazing, jumping or toppling into the void

by Diana Spencer

(2007), in D. H. J. Larmour and D. Spencer (eds.) The Sites of Rome: Time, Space, Memory (Oxford: OUP), 61-101

Review of J. D. Chaplin, C. S. Kraus (edd.), Livy. Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. BMCR 2010-03-49.

by Alex Nice

‘Livy, From the Founding of the City’ in Classical Literature and its Times ed. J. Moss. Los Angeles; Moss Publishing, 2006, 151-164.

by Alex Nice

Memoria Hannibalis: constructing memories of Punic War violence from the second century BCE through the fifth century CE

by Keenan Baca-Winters

Master's Thesis