{"product_id":"9780674997356","title":"History of Rome, Volume VII : Books 26-27 by J.C. Yardley","description":"Rome, from the beginning.   Livy (Titus Livius), the great  Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, where  after years in Rome he died in AD 12 or 17. Livy's history, composed as  the imperial autocracy of Augustus was replacing the republican system  that had stood for over five hundred years, presents in splendid style a  vivid narrative of Rome's rise from the traditional foundation of the  city in 753 or 751 BC to 9 BC and illustrates the collective and  individual virtues necessary to achieve and maintain such greatness.   Of its 142 books, conventionally divided into pentads and decades, we have 1-10 and 21-45 complete, and short summaries (periochae) of all the rest except 41 and 43-45; 11-20 are lost, and of the rest only fragments and the summaries remain.   The  third decade constitutes our fullest surviving account of the momentous  Second Punic (or Hannibalic) War, featuring a famous gallery of leaders  Roman, Carthaginian, and Greek, all memorably drawn. It comprises two  recognizable pentads: Books 21-25 narrate the run-up to conflict and  Rome's struggles in its first phase, with Hannibal dominant; Books 26-30  relate Rome's revival and final victory, as the focus shifts to Scipio  Africanus.   This edition of the third decade, which replaces the  original Loeb editions by B. O. Foster (Books 21-22) and Frank Gardner  Moore (Books 23-30), offers a text based on the critical editions by  John Briscoe (Books 21-25) and P. G. Walsh (Books 26-30), a fresh  translation, and ample annotation fully current with modern scholarship.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294419530101,"sku":"9780674997356","price":24.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780674997356.jpg?v=1762763622","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780674997356","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}