Institute for the Classical Tradition
ANRW II.30.2, pp. 998-1057
 
Current Research in Livy's First Decade: 1959-1979
by Jane E. Phillips, Lexington, Kentucky

Contents

Introduction 999

I. Scholarly tools, commentaries, textual criticism, general works

999

II. Individual passages and episodes

1001
Preface 1001

Book 1

1002

Book 2

1006

Book 4

1008

Book 5

1009

Books 5 and 6: Camillus

1010

Book 6

1011

Book 7

1012

Book 8

1014

Book 9

1015

Book 10

1017

III. The sources

1017

A. Aspects of early Rome

1018

B. Etruscan material

1021

C. Celtic material

1021

D. Non-annalist Latin writers

1022

E. The 'Annales Maximi'

1022

F. The annalistic chronology of early Rome

1023

G. The Latin annalistic tradition

1024

IV. Livy the student of history

1028

A. Biographical matters

1028

B. Livy's interpretation of history

1029

C. Echoes of contemporary events and issues

1033

V. Livy's historiographical methods

1036

A. Literary modes and techniques

1036

B. Use of his predecessors

1038

C. Themes, motifs, and characters

1040

D. Arrangement of books and episodes

1043

E. Language and style

1045

VI. Summary

1048
List of References 1050
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