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Livy
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Livy ( Titus Livius) (59 bc–?ad 17), Roman historian. His great work related the history of Rome from its beginnings to 9 bc. Of its 142 books only 35 have survived, the best-known of which give us the legendary history of early Rome and the second Punic War. His stories of Rome's beginnings provided material for Painter's
Palace of Pleasure (1566–7), for Shakespeare's
Rape of Lucrece (1594), and for Macaulay's
Lays of Ancient Rome (1842).
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Spectacle and Society in Livy's History.(Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Feldherr, Andrew Spectacle and Society in Livy's History Berkeley: University of California...an important historiographical study of Livy's History of Rome. The author builds a strong case for Livy's emphasis on history as "visual communication...
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Castigating Livy: the rape of Lucretia and 'The Old Arcadia.'
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...worked through the first three books of Livy's History of Rome, "scrutinizing them...1580. While Sidney makes Bloomian hay of Livy's account, the structural similarities...sexual crime committed by a prince. In Livy, Tarquin rapes Lucretia. In Sidney...
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Shoot the philosopher The French philosopher and media darling Bernard-Henri LIvy might not be to everyone's taste, says George Walden, but he doesn't deserve this biographical assassination
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 2/27/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...you. It is a measure of Bernard-Henri LIvy's charmed life that he has reached middle...France's best-known public intellectual LIvy's initials suffice) is by Philippe Cohen...attacking the media circus that produced LIvy, and quotes one of his exasperated left...
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Machiavelli's immortal look at Livy.(Books)(On Books)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 8/11/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...this new edition of the "Discourses on Livy" promise, "is a definite four-star...when the time for the deed came, "Titus Livy says these words: `And he himself gathered...Machiavelli, as his translators note, took his Livy (59 B.C. to A.D. 17) and ran with...
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Mark and Livy: The Love Story of Mark Twain and the Woman Who Almost Tamed Him.
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly; 9/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; Mark and Livy: The Love Story of Mark Twain and the Woman...s trade-book biography -- Mark and Livy: The Love Story of Mark Twain and the Woman...at such previously neglected documents as Livy's commonplace book, a chronicle of her...
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 "The Racing Post (London, England)")
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Wolverhampton: Livy looks like a Fibresand natural.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England); 10/21/2002; 286 words
; Byline: Graham Green Jeremy Glover has reservations about Fibresand, feeling the kick-back can sour horses, but Livy confirmed she has taken well to the surface with a second course triumph in the claimer under a confident ride from Jimmy Quinn...
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Niccolo Machiavelli. Discourses on Livy.(Italian Bookshelf)(New Science)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Annali d'Italianistica; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Niccolo Machiavelli. Discourses on Livy. Trans. and ed. J. Conaway Bondanella and P. Bondanella. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997. Giambattista Vico. New Science. Trans...
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OBIT - BANE, DAVID LIVY
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News; 7/10/2002; 221 words
; BANE, David Livy, 82, of Lexington, died Monday, July 8, 2002. Funeral service, 11 a.m. Thursday, at the Harrison Funeral Chapel, Lexington.
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Machiavelli's Romans: Liberty and Greatness in The Discourses on Livy.(Review)
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review; 3/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Machiavelli's Romans: Liberty and Greatness in The Discourses on Livy. By J. Patrick Coby. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 1999. 267p. $65.00 cloth, $23.95 paper. The laudable aim of Coby...
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Discourses on Livy.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 6/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...less often read, but no less profound work, the Discourses on Livy, here given a loving and lucid translation, with a perceptive...philosopher is still none too clear. These are discourses on Livy, a historian, not on Plato or Aristotle. In fact, philosophers...
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Livy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Livy Livy (ca. 64 B.C.-ca. A.D. 12), or Titus Livius, was a Roman historian...Empire out of the ruins of the republican system. In a life of quiet study Livy became the leading historian of his day. Livy was born in Patavium (Padua...
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Hannibal Barca
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...command of Hasdrubal, Hamilcar's successor and son-in-law. Livy gives a remarkable portrait of Hannibal's physique and character...religion must be discounted as anti-Carthaginian war propaganda of Livy's Roman sources. In Spain Upon the assassination of Hasdrubal...
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body politic
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...plebeians. This story has its earliest outing in the second book of Livy's History of Rome , and has throughout its history followed...the body politic has serious consequences for all the others. Livy, however, did not go to any great lengths to establish parallels...
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classical literature
Book article from: The Renaissance
...of the Greek philosopher Aristotle, and the Roman historians Livy, Sallust, and Julius Caesar. Virgil's The Aeneid was considered...since they were written. In his editing of the Roman historian Livy, for example, Petrarch made notes and suggestions wherever...
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Niccolò Machiavelli
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...assiduous sifter of the classics, especially the historical works of Livy and Tacitus; in all probability he knew the Greek classics only...moral renewal on the model of the Roman Republic as depicted by Livy and Tacitus. Though a republican at heart, he saw as the crying...
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