Movatterモバイル変換


[0]ホーム

URL:


Jump to content
WikipediaThe Free Encyclopedia
Search

History of Rome (Livy)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected fromPeriochae)
First-century BC Roman history by Livy

This article is about a work sometimes referred to asAb Urbe Condita. For the dating convention used for Roman history, seeAb Urbe Condita.
Stories from Livy I.4, on an altar panel fromOstia.Father Tiber looks on at the lower right while the nationallupa (wolf) nourishesRomulus and Remus, founders of Rome. The herders are about to find them. One of their goats can be seen. Small animals denote the wildness of the place. The nationalaquila (eagle) is portrayed.

TheHistory of Rome, perhaps originally titledAnnales, and frequently referred to asAb Urbe Condita (English:From the Founding of the City),[1] is a monumentalhistory of ancient Rome, written inLatin between 27 and 9 BC by the Roman historian Titus Livius, better known in English as "Livy".[a] The work covers the period from the legends concerning the arrival ofAeneas and the refugees from the fall ofTroy, to thecity's founding in 753 BC,the expulsion of theKings in 509 BC, and down to Livy's own time, during the reign of the emperorAugustus.[b][c] The last event covered by Livy is the death ofDrusus in 9 BC.[1] 35 of 142 books, about a quarter of the work, are still extant.[3] The surviving books deal with the events down to 293 BC (books 1–10), and from 219 to 166 BC (books 21–45).

Contents

[edit]

Corpus

[edit]

TheHistory of Rome originally comprised 142 "books", 35 of which—Books 1–10 with the Preface and Books 21–45—still exist in reasonably complete form.[1] Damage to a manuscript of the 5th century resulted in large gaps (lacunae) in Books 41 and 43–45 (small lacunae exist elsewhere); that is, the material is not covered in any source of Livy's text.[4]

A fragmentarypalimpsest of the 91st book was discovered in theVatican Library in 1772, containing about a thousand words (roughly three paragraphs), and several papyrus fragments of previously unknown material, much smaller, have been found in Egypt since 1900, most recently about 40 words from Book 11, unearthed in 1986.[5]

Some passages are nevertheless known thanks to quotes from ancient authors, the most famous being on the death ofCicero, quoted bySeneca the Elder.

Abridgements

[edit]
Fragment ofP. Oxy. 668, with Epitome of Livy XLVII–XLVIII

Livy was abridged, in antiquity, to anepitome, which survives for Book 1, but was itself abridged in the fourth century into the so-calledPeriochae, which is simply a list of contents. ThePeriochae survive for the entire work, except for books 136 and 137.[6]

InOxyrhynchus, a similar summary of books 37–40, 47–55, and only small fragments of 88 was found on a roll of papyrus that is now in theBritish Museum classified as P.Oxy.IV 0668.[7] There is another fragment, named P.Oxy.XI 1379, which represents a passage from the first book (I, 6) and that shows a high level of correctness.[8] However, the Oxyrhynchus Epitome is damaged and incomplete.

Chronology

[edit]

The entire work covers the following periods:[1][9]

Books 1–5 – The legendary founding of Rome (including the landing of Aeneas in Italy and the founding of the city by Romulus),the period of the kings, and the early republic down to its conquest by the Gauls in 390 BC.[d]

Books 6–10 – Wars with theAequi,Volsci,Etruscans, andSamnites, down to 292 BC.

Books 11–20 – The period from 292 to 218, including theFirst Punic War (lost).

Books 21–30 – TheSecond Punic War, from 218 to 202.

Books 31–45 – The Macedonian and other eastern wars from 201 to 167.

Books 46 to 142 are all lost:

Books 46–70 – The period from 167 to the outbreak of theSocial War in 91.

Books 71–90 – The civil wars betweenMarius andSulla, to the death of Sulla in 78.

Books 91–108 – From 78 BC through the end of the Gallic War, in 50.

Books 109–116 – From the Civil War to the death of Caesar (49–44).

Books 117–133 – The wars of thetriumvirs down to the death of Antonius (44–30).

Books 134–142 – The rule of Augustus down to the death of Drusus (9).

Table of contents

[edit]
Book numberStatusYears coveredMain events covered
1CompleteDown to 510 BCFoundation myths:Aeneas,Ascanius,Romulus and Remus,Rape of the Sabine women;history of the Roman Kingdom, expulsion ofTarquinus Superbus.
2Complete509–468 BCFoundation of the Republic byBrutus, wars againstTarquinius Superbus andPorsena,Secession of the Plebs,Volscian Wars.
3Complete467–446 BCThe Decemvirate.
4Complete445–404 BCConflict of the Orders, murder ofSpurius Maelius byAhala, war against theFidenates.
5Complete403–387 BCWar againstVeii,Sack of Rome byBrennus.
6Complete387–366 BCStory ofMarcus Manlius Capitolinus,Leges Liciniae Sextiae.
7Complete366–342 BCStories ofTitus Manlius Torquatus andMarcus Valerius Corvus,First Samnite War.
8Complete341–322 BCFirst Samnite War,Latin War.
9Complete321–304 BCSecond Samnite War, defeat of theCaudine Forks, alternate history withAlexander the Great defeated by Rome.
10Complete303–293 BCThird Samnite War, sacrifice ofPublius Decius Mus.
11Fragments[e]292–287 BCThird Samnite War, plague in Rome,Secession of the Plebs.
12Lost284–280 BCWar against theSenones,Pyrrhic War, campaigns against theSamnites and Italians, betrayal of Decius Vibullius atRhegium.
13Lost280–278 BCPyrrhic War, treaty withCarthage, campaigns against Italic peoples.
14Lost278–272 BCPyrrhic War, treaty withPtolemy II, Carthage breaks the treaty with Rome, campaigns against Italic peoples.
15Lost272–267 BCRome recovers Tarentum and Rhegium. ThePicentes,Umbrians andSallentini submit.
16Quotes[f]264–263 BCFirst Punic War, first gladiatorial games.
17Lost260–256 BCFirst Punic War
18Quote[g]255 BCFirst Punic War
19Quote[h]251–241 BCFirst Punic War
20Lost237–220 BCWars against theFaliscans,Sardinians,Corsicans,Illyrians,Gauls,Insubres, andIstrians.
21Complete219–218 BCSecond Punic War:Battle of the Trebia.
22Complete217–216 BCSecond Punic War, defeats of theLake Trasimene andCannae.
23Complete216–215 BCSecond Punic War.
24Complete215–213 BCSecond Punic War,First Macedonian War.
25Complete213–212 BCSecond Punic War, fall ofSyracuse.
26Complete211–210 BCSecond Punic War,First Macedonian War. Source forThe Continence of Scipio.
27Complete210–207 BCSecond Punic War,First Macedonian War.
28Complete207–205 BCSecond Punic War,First Macedonian War.
29Complete205–204 BCSecond Punic War, revolt ofIndibilis and Mandonius.
30Complete203–201 BCSecond Punic War,Battle of Zama.
31Complete201–199 BCSecond Macedonian War.
32Complete198–197 BCSecond Macedonian War.
33Complete197–195 BCSecond Macedonian War,Battle of Cynoscephalae.
34Complete195–194 BCLex Oppia repealed, victory ofCato in Hispania,War against Nabis, triumphs of Cato andFlamininus.
35Complete193–192 BCCampaign against the Ligurians, discussion betweenScipio Africanus andHannibal, affairs of Greece, talks withAntiochus III, who then invades Greece.
36Complete191 BCRoman-Seleucid War,Battle of Thermopylae.
37Complete190–188 BCRoman-Seleucid War.
38Complete188 BCOperations in Greece, campaign against theGalatians,Treaty of Apamea, trial and exile ofScipio Africanus.
39Complete187–181 BCThe Bacchanalia, causes of theThird Macedonian War, deaths ofScipio Africanus andHannibal.
40Complete184–179 BCPerseus kills his brotherDemetrius, and inherits thekingdom of Macedon. Campaign against the Ligurians.
41Almost complete179–174 BCCampaigns against the Ligurians, Histrians,Sardinians andCeltiberians;Perseus' activities in Greece.
42Complete173–171 BCThird Macedonian War.
43Almost complete171–169 BCThird Macedonian War.
44Almost complete169–168 BCThird Macedonian War,Battle of Pydna.
45Almost complete168–166 BCThird Macedonian War, capture ofPerseus,Sixth Syrian War, triumph ofAemilius Paullus.
46Lost165–160 BCEumenes II's visit to Rome, campaigns in North Italy, embassies toPtolemy VI andPtolemy VIII, andAriarathes V, death ofPaullus Aemilius, thePomptine Marshes are drained.
47Lost160–154 BCDivision of Egypt betweenPtolemy VI andPtolemy VIII, support ofAriarathes V againstDemetrius I, campaigns against the Dalmatians and Ligurians.
48Lost154–150 BCOrigin of theThird Punic War, death ofMarcus Aemilius Lepidus,Second Celtiberian War,Lusitanian War.
49Lost149 BCThird Punic War,Lusitanian War,Fourth Macedonian War.
50Lost149–147 BCPrusias II of Bithynia is killed by his sonNicomedes II, death ofMassinissa,Third Punic War,Scipio Aemilianus elected consul,Fourth Macedonian War.
51Lost147–146 BCThird Punic War,destruction of Carthage,Achaean War.
52Lost146–145 BCAchaean War,Lusitanian War, war betweenAlexander Balas andDemetrius II.
53Lost143 BCLusitanian War.
54Lost141–139 BCNumantine War,Lusitanian War, death ofViriathus.
55Lost138–137 BCNumantine War, murder ofAntiochus VI byDiodotus Tryphon.
56Lost136–134 BCNumantine War,First Servile War.
57Lost133 BCNumantine War, campaign ofScipio Aemilianus.
58Lost133 BCReforms ofTiberius Sempronius Gracchus, his death;First Servile War.
59Lost133–129 BCNumantine War, victory ofScipio Aemilianus;First Servile War, revolt ofEumenes III of Pergamon, war betweenAntiochus VII andPhraates II, crisis in Egypt, riots in Rome in the aftermath ofTiberius Gracchus' reforms.
60Lost126–123 BCReforms ofGaius Sempronius Gracchus,Quintus Caecilius Metellus' campaign in the Balearic Islands.
61Lost122–120 BCWar against the Gauls, victory ofFabius Maximus Allobrogicus againstBituitus, death ofGaius Gracchus.
62Lost118–117 BCAffairs ofNumidia, with a civil war started byJugurtha.
63Lost114–112 BCCampaigns against the Scordiscians in Thrace, beginning of theCimbrian War.
64Lost112–110 BCJugurthine War.
65Lost109–107 BCJugurthine War,Cimbrian War.
66Lost106 BCJugurthine War.
67Lost105–104 BCCimbrian War,Marius' triumph and successive consulships.
68Lost103–100 BCCimbrian War.
69Lost100 BCReforms ofSaturninus andGlaucia, their deaths.
70Lost97–91 BCCampaign against theCeltiberians,Ptolemy Apion bequeaths his kingdom,Sulla reinstatesAriobarzanes in his kingdom, reforms ofMarcus Livius Drusus.
71Lost91 BCDrusus is murdered,Social War.
72Lost91 BCSocial War.
73Lost90 BCSocial War.
74Lost89–88 BCSocial War.
75Lost88 BCSocial War.
76Lost89–88 BCSocial War,Mithridates conquersCappadocia andBithynia.
77Lost88 BCSulla's march on Rome,First Mithridatic War.
78Lost88 BCFirst Mithridatic War.
79Lost87 BCBellum Octavianum.
80Lost87–86 BCCitizenship given to Italian allies,Bellum Octavianum, death ofMarius.
81Lost87–86 BCFirst Mithridatic War,Sulla takesAthens.
82Lost86 BCFirst Mithridatic War, battles ofChaeronea andOrchomenus,Valerius Flaccus is murdered byFlavius Fimbria.
83Lost86–84 BCFirst Mithridatic War,Sulla's civil war.
84Lost84 BCSulla's civil war, death ofCinna.
85Lost83 BCSulla's civil war.
86Lost83–82 BCSulla's civil war,Second Mithridatic War.
87Lost82 BCSulla's civil war.
88Lost82 BCSulla's civil war,Battle of the Colline Gate, death ofMarius the Younger.
89Lost82–81 BCSulla's civil war, death ofCarbo, Sulla'sproscription andreforms,Pompey's first triumph.
90Lost78 BCDeath ofSulla, uprising ofMarcus Aemilius Lepidus,Sertorian War.
91Fragment[15]77 BCSertorian War.
92Lost76 BCSertorian War, campaign ofGaius Scribonius Curio against theDardanians.
93Lost76–75 BCPublius Servilius conquersIsauria,Third Mithridatic War,Sertorian War.
94Lost74 BCThird Mithridatic War,Sertorian War.
95Lost74–73 BCWar of Gaius Scribonius Curio against theDardanians,Third Servile War,Third Mithridatic War.
96Lost73–72 BCThird Servile War,Sertorian War.
97Lost71–70 BCThird Servile War, campaign ofMarcus Antonius Creticus inCrete,Third Mithridatic War,Crassus andPompey become consuls.
98Lost70–69 BCThird Mithridatic War, campaign ofQuintus Caecillius Metellus in Crete.
99Lost68–67 BCThird Mithridatic War,Pompey's expedition against theCilician pirates, campaign ofQuintus Caecillius Metellus in Crete.
100Lost66 BCThird Mithridatic War, wars in Armenia.
101Lost66–65 BCThird Mithridatic War,Catilinarian conspiracy.
102Lost64–63 BCThird Mithridatic War, death ofMithridates,Pompey takes Jerusalem,Catilinarian conspiracy.
103Lost62–58 BCCatilinarian conspiracy,Publius Clodius Pulcher goes over to the plebeians,First Triumvirate,Gallic Wars.
104Lost58–56 BCGallic Wars,Cicero returns from exile.
105Lost56–54 BCCato's attempt to obstruct the Triumvirate,Gallic Wars, first Crossing of the Rhine.
106Lost54–53 BCGallic Wars,Battle of Carrhae, death ofCrassus.
107Lost53–52 BCGallic Wars, murder ofClodius byMilo,Pompey elected sole consul, revolt ofVercingetorix.
108Lost52–50 BCGallic Wars,Battle of Alesia, victory ofGaius Cassius Longinus against the Parthians.
109Lost50–49 BCCaesar's Civil War,Crossing of the Rubicon.
110Lost49–48 BCCaesar's Civil War.
111Quote[16]48 BCCaesar's Civil War (Battle of Pharsalus).
112Quote[i]48 BCCaesar's Civil War.
113Lost47 BCCaesar's Civil War.
114Lost46 BCCaesar's Civil War.
115Lost46 BCCaesar's Civil War.
116Lost45–44 BCCaesar's Civil War,assassination of Caesar.
117Lost44 BCOctavian arrives in Italy,Antony disrupts the allotment of provinces, preparations for war on multiple sides.
118Lost44 BCBrutus takes the army ofPublius Vatinius in Greece,Octavian builds an army,Antony besiegesModena.
119Lost44–43 BCPublius Cornelius Dolabella is declared enemy of the state,Battle of Mutina,Octavian becomes consul at 19.
120Quote[j]43 BCSecond Triumvirate, proscriptions, death ofCicero.
121Lost43 BCCassius besieges Dolabella inLaodicea, who commits suicide;Brutus executesGaius Antonius.
122Lost43 BCBrutus' campaign inThrace.
123Lost42 BCSicilian revolt bySextus Pompey,Liberators' Civil War.
124Lost42 BCBattle of Philippi.
125Lost41 BCPerusine War.
126Lost41–40 BCPerusine War.
127Lost40–39 BCPompeian–Parthian invasion,Pact of Misenum.
128Lost38–37 BCSicilian revolt,Antony's Parthian War,Siege of Jerusalem.
129Lost36 BCSicilian Revolt,Battle of Naulochus,Octavian defeatsLepidus.
130Lost36 BCAntony's Parthian War.
131Lost35–34 BCSextus Pompey is captured and executed by Antony, Octavian's campaigns in Illyria, Antony's conquest of Armenia,Donations of Alexandria.
132Lost34–31 BCAntony's Civil War:Battle of Actium.
133Lost30–28 BCAntony's Civil War: suicides ofAntony andCleopatra; conspiracy ofMarcus Aemilius Lepidus Minor.
134Lost27 BCOctavian becomes Augustus, census in the three Gauls, campaign ofMarcus Licinius Crassus against theBasterni andMoesians.
135Lost25 BCCampaigns ofMarcus Crassus against the Thracians, and of Augustus in Hispania.
136LostMissing in thePeriochae.
137LostMissing in thePeriochae.
138Lost15–12 BCTiberius andDrusus conquersRaetia, death ofAgrippa, Drusus makes a census in Gaul.
139Lost12 BCDrusus' campaign inGermania,Imperial cult atLugdunum.
140Lost11 BCConquest ofThracia,Drusus' campaign inGermania, death ofOctavia.
141Lost10 BCDrusus' campaign inGermania.
142Lost9 BCDeath ofDrusus.

Style

[edit]

Livy wrote in a mixture of annualchronology andnarrative. This emerged from his decision to organise his narrative on a year-by-year scheme with regular announcements of elections of "consuls, prodigies, temple dedications, triumphs, and the like". This kind of year-by-year list of events is termed "annalistic history". Livy employed annalistic features to associate his history with the dominant traditional of Roman history, which was to write these annalistic chronicles; in so doing, he "imbued his history with an aura of continuity and stability" along with "pontifical authority".[19]

The first and third decades (see below) of Livy's work are written so well that Livy has become asine qua non of curricula in Golden Age Latin. Some have argued that subsequently the quality of his writing began to decline, and that he becomes repetitious and wordy. Of the 91st bookBarthold Georg Niebuhr says "repetitions are here so frequent in the small compass of four pages and the prolixity so great, that we should hardly believe it to belong to Livy...." Niebuhr accounts for the decline by supposing "the writer has grown old and become loquacious...",[20] going so far as to conjecture that the later books were lost because copyists refused to copy such low-quality work.[21]

However, Livy also employed repetitive and formulaic wording in description of repetitive military affairs, described by Ogilvie as "mechanical and careless". Modern readers, however, view Livy's repetitive prose more positively at least in performance of prayers, blessings, and public religious rituals.[22]

Adigression in Book 9, Sections 17–19, suggests that the Romans would have beatenAlexander the Great if he had lived longer and had turned west to attack the Romans, making this digression one of the oldest known writtenalternate history scenarios.[23]

Publication

[edit]
Ab Urbe condita, 1714

The first five books were published between 27 and 25 BC. The first date mentioned is the yearAugustus received that eponymous title: twice in the first five books Livy uses it.[24] For the second date, Livy lists the closings of the temple ofJanus but omits that of 25 (it had not happened yet).[25]

Livy continued to work on theHistory for much of the rest of his life, publishing new material by popular demand. This explains why the work falls naturally into 12 packets, mainly groups of 10 books, or decades, sometimes of 5 books (pentads or pentades) and the rest without any packet order. The scheme of dividing it entirely into decades is a later innovation of copyists.[26]

The second pentad did not come out until 9 or after, some 16 years after the first pentad. In Book IX Livy states that theCimminian Forest was more impassable than the German had been recently, referring to theHercynian Forest (Black Forest) first opened byDrusus andAhenobarbus.[27]

Manuscripts

[edit]

There is no uniform system of classifying and naming manuscripts. Often the relationship of onemanuscript (MS) to another remains unknown or changes as perceptions of the handwriting change. Livy's release of chapters by packet diachronically encouraged copyists to copy by decade. Each decade has its own conventions, which do not necessarily respect the conventions of any other decade. A family of MSS descend through copying from the same MSS (typically lost). MSS vary widely; to produce an emendation or a printed edition was and is a major task. Usually variant readings are given in footnotes.

First decade

[edit]

All of the manuscripts (except one) of the first ten books (first decade) ofAb urbe condita, which were copied through the Middle Ages and were used in the first printed editions, are derived from a singlerecension commissioned byQuintus Aurelius Symmachus, consul, AD 391.[28] A recension is made by comparing extant manuscripts and producing a new version, anemendation, based on the text that seems best to the editor. The latter then "subscribed" to the new MS by noting on it that he had emended it.

Symmachus, probably using the authority of his office, commissioned Tascius Victorianus to emend the first decade. Books I–IX bear the subscriptionVictorianus emendabam dominis Symmachis, "I Victorianus emended (this) by the authority of Symmachus." Books VI–VIII include another subscription preceding it, that of Symmachus' son-in-law,Nicomachus Flavianus, and Books III–V were also emended by Flavianus' son,Appius Nicomachus Dexter, who says he used his relative Clementianus' copy.[29] This recension and family of descendant MSS is called the Nicomachean, after two of the subscribers. From it several MSS descend (incomplete list):[30][31]

Nicomachean Family ofMSS
Identifying
Letter
Location & NumberNameDate
VVeronensis rescriptus10th century
HHarleianus10th century
EEinsiedlensis10th century
FParis 5724Floriacensis10th century
PParis 5725Parisiensis9th/10th century
MMediceus-Laurentianus10th/11th century
UUpsaliensis10th/11th century
RVaticanus 3329Romanus11th century
OBodleianus 20631Oxoniensis11th century
DFlorentinus-MarcianusDominicanus12th century
AAgennensis
Petrarch's copy
12th–14th century
Ab urbe condita, 1493

Epigraphists go on to identify several hands and lines of descent. A second family of the first decade consists of the VeronaPalimpsest, reconstructed and published byTheodore Mommsen, 1868; hence the Veronensis MSS. It includes 60 leaves of Livy fragments covering Books III-VI. The handwriting style is dated to the 4th century, only a few centuries after Livy.[32]

During the Middle Ages, there were constant rumours that the complete books of the History of Livy lay hidden in the library of a Danish or German Monastery. One individual even affirmed under oath in the court ofMartin V that he had seen the whole work, written in Lombardic script, in a monastery in Denmark. All of these rumours were later found to be unsubstantiated.[33]

Veracity

[edit]
An illumination in a manuscript ofAb urbe condita, in the French translation ofPierre Bersuire. The manuscript belonged to kingCharles V of France. The illumination shows mythical scenes concerning the foundation of Rome and previous mythical history. Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Ms. 777, fol. 7r.

The orthodox view is that "Livy was a very poor historian indeed, whether by ancient or modern standards".[34] This is rooted in a few major reasons. He did "no primary research", relying "exclusively on earlier histories". His understanding of those sources was poor: with Livy relating the same event twice on multiple occasions.[34] Moreover, "there are clear signs that his Greek was not good enough to understand properly one of his major sources, the Greek historian Polybius",[34] whom he followed closely for events in the east in books 31 to 45.[35]

Livy also did not intend to produce a history in terms of cataloguing and understanding the past, but rather, in terms of preserving a "memory ... [that] equips the reader with a sense of wrong and right as determined or exemplified by the actions of one's predecessors".[36] Moreover, the work was also written "under the shadow of the new emperor"[37] with the goal of supporting "the idea that the Augustan principate was theculmination of Roman history".[38]

While other sources have attempted to rehabilitate Livy's history in terms of its literary quality (for example, DS Levene'sLivy on the Hannibalic War),[39] this is not a defence of the history's historicity.[40] Modern criticism of Livy also goes into the "inaccuracy of his battle accounts, the vagueness of his geography, ... the excessive partiality shown to one or [an]other of his 'heroes', and in general the highly rhetorical nature of not only his speeches but also of his dramatic narrations".[41]

However, judgement on Livy's whole work ought to be withheld insofar as only the first third ofAb urbe condita survives; the portions of Livy that survive, heavily relying on an uncritical repetition of earlier sources, may not be the same approach he took for later periods of the republic or his own time, where he would have needed "to do his own research using contemporary testimonies from eyewitnesses[,] the records of the senate and the assemblies[, and records of the] speeches of the great orators".[42]

Historicity

[edit]

The details of Livy'sHistory vary from the legendary and mythical stories at the beginning[43] to detailed accounts of real events toward the end. Livy, in his preface on discussing the early history of Rome, noted the difficulties of interpreting or reconciling the sources in his own day:

So many chronological errors, magistrates appearing differently in different authors, suggest ... you cannot tell which consuls came after which or what belonged [to] any one year...[44]

It is not easy to prefer one thing over the other or one author over another. I think that the tradition has been contaminated... since various families have fraudulently arrogated to themselves the repute of deeds and offices. As a result, both individuals' deeds and the public records of events have certainly been thrown into confusion. Nor is there any writer contemporary with those times who could serve as a reliable standard.[45]

Livy too recognised that the early years of Rome were profoundly ahistorical, saying "the traditions of what happened prior to the foundation of the city or whilst it was being built, are more fitted to adorn the creations of the poet than the authentic records of the historian".[46] The first book has been one of the most significant sources of the various accounts of the traditional legend ofRomulus and Remus.[47] However, when comparing Livy's account of the kingdom to that ofDionysius of Halicarnassus, his scepticism is better evident, as he omitted "many stories which seemed rather improbable to him".[48] And in general, the early parts of the books are important accounts of early Rome surviving from antiquity.[49]

But while Livy did recognise "the higher reliability of older contemporary authors compared to younger ones", he did little to ensure that his history was internally consistent or follow his own insights on unreliability regularly, preferring the story of his chosen choice without changes, "even if he afterward detected capital errors".[50]

Livy's treatment of his own sources was more in terms of arranging material and synthesising a narrative rather than engaging in original research into official documents; in doing so, he "did little more than [trying] to reconcile discrepancies in his sources by using arguments from probability".[51] However, Livy did not substantially grapple with the possibility that annalists knew how to invent probable stories.[50] Furthermore, rarely did Livy provide the names of his sources, especially in the long passages where he followed one major source with infrequent comparisons to other sources to correct errors.[52] Fortunately, Livy's goal in telling existing narratives with "better style and arrangement" means he seemingly did not introduce into his history "invented episodes of exaggerations".[48]

Livy's sources

[edit]

Livy's work "came at the end of a long line of historians ... conventionally known as the 'annalistic tradition'".[53] Where he relied on these sources (along with other narrative sources available in his day) his principle was similar to that of Herodotus': "tell what he had been told".[48]

Roman historiography goes back toQuintus Fabius Pictor who wrotec. 200 BC, heavily influenced by Greek historiographical canons and methods. Other annalists includedQuintus Ennius,Marcius Porcius Cato the censor,Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi,Lucius Cassius Hemina,Gnaeus Gellius, Vennonius,Valerius Antias,Licinius Macer,Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius, andQuintus Aelius Tubero.[54] The last three annalists (operating in the first century BC) are, however, "widely believed to have been less scrupulous than their second-century predecessors", supplying stories about the archaic period "from their own imaginations".[55] However, as to certain elements of his narrative, Livy may have relied on "unscrupulous annalists" who "did not hesitate to invent a series of face-saving victories".[56]

Livy did not use thelibri lintei or theannales maximi kept by thepontifex maximus; nor did he "walk around in Rome, or elsewhere, to discover inscriptions or other new documents".[57] The difficulties of using the senate's own archives, documented in speeches by Cicero, "hint... at the possibilities of falsifying evidence" and the poor transmission of authoritative historical records.[42]

Later influences

[edit]

Machiavelli

[edit]

Niccolò Machiavelli's work onrepublics,Discourses on Livy, is presented as a commentary on theHistory of Rome.

Translations

[edit]

The first complete rendering ofAb urbe condita into English wasPhilemon Holland's translation published in 1600. According to Considine, "it was a work of great importance, presented in a grand folio volume of 1,458 pages, and dedicated to [QueenElizabeth I]".[58]

A notable translation of Livy titledHistory of Rome was made by B.O. Foster in 1919 for theLoeb Classical Library. A partial translation byAubrey de Sélincourt was printed in 1960–1965 forPenguin Classics.[59][60]

Wikisource has original text related to this article:

The version of Livy available on Wikisource is that from the 1905 translation of Reverend Canon Roberts for Everyman's Library.[61]

Notes

[edit]
  1. ^Various indications point to the period from 27 to 20 BC as that during which the first decade was written. In the first book (XIX. 3) the emperor is calledAugustus, a title which he was granted by theRoman Senate early in 27, and in IX. 18 the omission of all reference to the restoration, in 20, of the standards taken at Carrhae seems to justify the inference that the passage was written before that date. In the epitome of book LIX, there is a reference to a law of Augustus which was passed in 18.[2]
  2. ^Livy uses the chronology ofVarro, one of his predecessors, whose chronology was the most widely accepted in antiquity, and remains in general use today, although scholars continue to debate the dating of specific events, including the founding of Rome itself.
  3. ^In Roman times, it was customary to date events according to the consuls of each year, rather than assigning each year a numerical name; so while it was possible to date events by reference to the founding of Rome, this was rarely done. For instance, the consuls of 439 BC were Agrippa Menenius Lanatus and Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus, so that year would typically be referred to as "the consulship of Agrippa Menenius and Titus Quinctius", rather than "the year three hundred and fifteen". From this custom, the consuls who began each year are sometimes referred to as theeponymous magistrates of that year; that is, the magistrates after whom the year was named.
  4. ^This is the traditional date, but some uncertainty exists with regard to four years during theSamnite Wars for which no consuls are named in any source, and for which no elections were supposedly held; this has led some scholars to conclude that the Gallic sack of Rome occurred in or about 386 BC, although this also creates an unexplained (and undated) gapbefore the event.[10]
  5. ^Two small fragments discovered in 1986 in Egypt.[5]
  6. ^Maurus Servius Honoratus,In Vergilii Aeneidem Commentarii1.366,1.738.[11]
  7. ^"I should also mention the snake that Livy talks about in such detail and with such style. He says that in Africa, near the river Bagradas, there was a snake so huge that it was able to prevent the army of Atilius Regulus from using the river. It snatched up many soldiers in its huge mouth... Livy notes that the hide of the beast was sent to our city and measured 120 feet."[12][13]
  8. ^Maurus Servius Honoratus,In Vergilii Aeneidem Commentarii6.198.[14]
  9. ^Seneca the Younger,De Tranquillitate Animi9.5.[17]
  10. ^Seneca the Elder,Suasoriae6.17.[18]

References

[edit]

Citations

[edit]
  1. ^abcdRamsay, William (1870)."Livius" . InSmith, William (ed.).Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. II. pp. 790796.
  2. ^Pelham 1911.
  3. ^Foster (1874), p. xvi.
  4. ^Hardwick 2003, p. 23.
  5. ^abGabrielli 2003, pp. 247–259.
  6. ^"Livy: the Periochae".www.livius.org.Archived from the original on August 9, 2014. RetrievedAugust 5, 2014.
  7. ^"T. LIVI PERIOCHARUM FRAGMENTA OXYRHYNCHI REPERTA".www.attalus.org.Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. RetrievedAugust 5, 2014.
  8. ^The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, part XI, London, 1915,pagg. 188-89.
  9. ^The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, ed. By M.C. Howatson. Oxford, 1989, p. 326.
  10. ^Broughton 1951, pp. xi, 94–96, 141, 148, 149, 163, 164, 171.
  11. ^McDevitte 1862, p. 2213.
  12. ^Valerius Maximus (2004).Memorable deeds and sayings: one thousand tales from ancient Rome. Translated by Walker, Henry. Indianapolis: Hackett. 1.8.ext.19.ISBN 0-87220-675-0.OCLC 53231884.
  13. ^McDevitte 1862, pp. 2213–14.
  14. ^McDevitte 1862, p. 2214.
  15. ^McDevitte 1862, pp. 2215–17.
  16. ^McDevitte 1862, p. 2219. Citing Plutarch,Caesar 47.
  17. ^McDevitte 1862, p. 2219.
  18. ^McDevitte 1862, pp. 2220, 2221.
  19. ^Hahn 2015, p. 92.
  20. ^Niebuhr, ed. Schmitz, 1844The History of Rome vol. I.p.56
  21. ^Nieburh, ed. Schmitz, 1844The History of Rome vol. I.p.57
  22. ^Hahn 2015, p. 93.
  23. ^Dozois, Gardner; Schmidt, Stanley, eds. (1998).Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History. New York: Del Rey. pp. 1–5.ISBN 978-0-345-42194-4.
  24. ^Foster (1874), p. xi, citing LivyI.19 andIV.20.
  25. ^Foster (1874), p. xi, citing LivyI.19.
  26. ^Foster (1874), pp xv–xvi.
  27. ^Niebuhr (1844), p. 39, citingLivy IX.36.
  28. ^Hedrick, Charles W. (2000).History and Silence: Purge and Rehabilitation of Memory in Late Antiquity. University of Texas Press. pp. 181–182.ISBN 978-0-292-73121-9.
  29. ^Foster (1874), pp. xxxii–xxxvi
  30. ^Hall, Frederick William (1913).A companion to classical texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 246–247.
  31. ^Kraus (1994), p. 30
  32. ^Foster (1874), p. xxxii.
  33. ^Clark, Albert C (1921-06-01)."The Reappearance of the Texts of the Classics".The Library. S4-II (1):13–42.doi:10.1093/library/s4-II.1.13.
  34. ^abcBeard 2013, p. 76.
  35. ^Briscoe 2012, p. 852.
  36. ^Gowing 2005, p. 23.
  37. ^Gowing 2005, p. 21.
  38. ^Gowing 2005, p. 154. Emphasis in original.
  39. ^Beard 2013, p. 77.
  40. ^Beard 2013, pp. 77–78.
  41. ^Walsh, PG (1958)."The Negligent Historian: 'Howlers' in Livy".Greece & Rome.5 (1):83–88.doi:10.1017/S0017383500015047.ISSN 1477-4550.S2CID 162297822.
  42. ^abvon Ungern-Sternberg 2015, p. 170.
  43. ^Cornell 1995, p. 16.
  44. ^Holloway 2008, pp. 124–25. Citing Livy, 2.21.4.
  45. ^Forsythe 2005, p. 77.
  46. ^Livy 1905, 1 pr 6.
  47. ^Tennant, PMW (1988)."The Lupercalia and the Romulus and Remus Legend"(PDF).Acta Classica.XXXI:81–93.ISSN 0065-1141. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 10 May 2017. Retrieved22 November 2016.
  48. ^abcvon Ungern-Sternberg 2015, p. 171.
  49. ^Forsythe 2005, p. 59.
  50. ^abvon Ungern-Sternberg 2015, p. 168.
  51. ^Forsythe 2005, p. 66.
  52. ^von Ungern-Sternberg 2015, pp. 167–68.
  53. ^Cornell 1995, p. 5.
  54. ^Cornell 1995, pp. 5–6.
  55. ^Cornell 1995, p. 6. Cornell is amenable to the position that these late annalists relied on other now-lost works rather than invention.
  56. ^Cornell 1986, p. 74.
  57. ^von Ungern-Sternberg 2015, p. 169.
  58. ^Considine 2004.
  59. ^Livy (1960).The Early History of Rome: Books I–V of the History of Rome from its Foundation. Penguin Classics. Translated by de Sélincourt, Aubrey. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
  60. ^Livy (1965).The War with Hannibal: Books XXI–XXX of the History of Rome from its Foundation. Penguin Classics. Translated by de Sélincourt, Aubrey. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
  61. ^Livy 1905.

Sources

[edit]

Further reading

[edit]
  • Briscoe, John
    • A Commentary on Livy Books XXXI-XXXIII. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1973.
    • A Commentary on Livy Books XXXIV-XXXVII. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1981.
    • A Commentary on Livy Books XXXVIII-XL. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2008.
  • Burck, Erich (1934).Die Erzählungskunst des T. Livius. Problemata; Forschungen zur klassischen Philologie, Heft 11 (in German). Berlin: Weidmann.
  • Chaplin, Jane (2001).Livy's Exemplary History.Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0-19-815274-3.
  • Feldherr, Andrew (1998).Spectacle and Society in Livy's History. Berkeley: University of California Press.ISBN 978-0-520-21027-1.
  • Jaeger, Mary (1997).Livy's Written Rome. University of Michigan Press.ASIN B000S73SBI.
  • Lipovsky, James (1984).A Historiographical Study of Livy: Books VI-X. New Hampshire: Ayer Company.ASIN B0006YIJN0.
  • Luce, T. James (1977).Livy: The Composition of his History. Princeton University Press.ISBN 978-0-691-03552-9.
  • Mackail, J. W. (2008).Latin Literature. BiblioLife.ISBN 978-0-554-32199-8.
  • Miles, Gary B. (1995).Livy: Reconstructing Early Rome. Cornell University Press.ISBN 978-0-8014-8426-1.
  • Oakley, S. P. (2008).A Commentary on Livy, Books VI-X. Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0-19-923785-2.
  • Ogilvie, R. M. (1965).A Commentary on Livy Books 1 to 5. Oxford: Clarendon Press.ASIN B0000CMI9B.
  • Radice, Betty (1982).Rome and Italy: Books VI-X of the History of Rome from its Foundation. London: Penguin Books.ISBN 978-0-14-044388-2.
  • Walsh, P. G. (1996) [1967].Livy, his historical aims and methods. Bristol Classical Press.ISBN 9781853991301.

External links

[edit]
LatinWikisource has original text related to this article:

Primary sources

[edit]

Secondary sources

[edit]
History of Rome (Livy) at Wikipedia'ssister projects:
International
National
Other
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_Rome_(Livy)&oldid=1279662019#Abridgements"
Categories:
Hidden categories:

[8]ページ先頭

©2009-2025 Movatter.jp