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Livy: Ab urbe condita Book XXII

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Edited with Introduction and Notes by ,
Published 2020

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Livy's Ab urbe condita Book XXII narrates Hannibal's massive defeats of the Romans at Trasimene (217 BC) and Cannae (216 BC). It is Livy's best and most dramatic book, and the one most likely to appeal to students at every level. Livy drew on the Greek historian Polybius, but transformed his drier treatment into a rhetorical masterpiece, which by a series of insistent thematic contrasts brings out the tensions between the delaying tactics of Fabius and the costly rashness of…

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Key features

  • Provides the first detailed commentary on this book for half a century
  • Provides a new text as well as an Introduction and Commentary suitable for undergraduates and graduate students
  • Gives full treatment of historical, linguistic and stylistic matters as well as aids to translation

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