Search results for "Livy" - New World Encyclopedia
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- by Greek and Roman historians, such as Livy, Polybius, Appian, Cornelius ... Tertullian, Orosius, and Diodorus Siculus. Livy and Polybius do not. The Hebrew ...45 KB (7,001 words) - 00:42, 29 November 2023
- Xenophon, Diodorus, Strabo, Pausanias, Plutarch, Livy, Justin, Ovid, Lucan, and Julian. The name of the Pythia derived from Pytho, which in myth ...24 KB (3,809 words) - 21:08, 14 April 2023
- states. Machiavelli wrote in his Discourses on Livy that militia were critical for the survival of a free republic. The Italian patriot Garibaldi ...26 KB (3,981 words) - 10:59, 10 March 2023
- Livy, Book 5. Roman dominance expanded over the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, reaching a population of one million people, and for almost 1 ...25 KB (3,724 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- to raise 200,000 fighting men. The Roman historian Livy was born near there in 59 B.C.E. The area is said to have been Christianized by Saint ...25 KB (3,594 words) - 06:14, 18 November 2022
- Roman Empire. Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy (1513-1517) are an example. The notion of Empire contained in itself its ascendance and its decadence ...30 KB (4,545 words) - 04:16, 24 November 2022
- 9/Supplicium_de_More_Maiorum*.html LIVY I.26 and the Supplicum de More Maiorum] Transactions of the American Philological Association 39 (1908 ...29 KB (4,573 words) - 06:30, 11 January 2024
- His historical sources include easily identifiable passages from Livy, Suetonius, Plutarch, and other classical historians, as well as medieval ...27 KB (4,102 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
- to his works and from stories related by Plutarch, Livy and other ancient historiographers. The preface to The Sand Reckoner tells us that Archimedes’ ...30 KB (4,881 words) - 06:19, 12 August 2023
- notice of his scholarly interests. In 7, Livy was hired to tutor him in ... the founding of Rome identical to that of Livy, his tutor in adolescence ...58 KB (9,002 words) - 11:01, 19 December 2023
- #039;s most famous works are Discourses on Livy, Florentine Histories, and finally The Prince, which has become so well-known in Western society ...32 KB (4,821 words) - 22:45, 22 September 2022
- evidence about its early history—according to Livy (59 B.C.E. - 17 C.E.)—most of that history is legendary. Archaeology confirms a widespread level ...35 KB (5,526 words) - 04:38, 22 March 2024
- evidence exists. The writings of Romans like Livy are considered masterpieces of pro-Roman statist propaganda. The Behistun inscription, made around 515 ...32 KB (4,797 words) - 01:18, 12 April 2023
- III in the area, and the eclipse is mentioned by Livy in his Ab Urbe Condita VIII.2. It was also observed in Alexandria, where the Sun was reported ...39 KB (6,174 words) - 21:25, 30 January 2024
- During the Augustan Age that followed, Livy produced a history of the Roman people in 142 books. Only 35 survived, but they are a major source ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 18:29, 28 February 2023
- Orosius, Diodorus Siculus, and Philo. Livy and Polybius do not. The Bible asserts that children were at a place called the Tophet ("roasting ...36 KB (5,474 words) - 22:07, 16 August 2022
- scholars. He also lectured on oratory, on Virgil and Livy. He was awarded the Bacheolor of Divinity degree in 1519, but never consented to "become ...46 KB (7,311 words) - 03:55, 24 November 2022
- Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0199540068). Livy, too, is skeptical about the mythological tradition and claims that he does not intend to pass judgment ...45 KB (6,635 words) - 21:31, 12 July 2023
- The Celts were described by classical writers such as Strabo, Livy, Pausanias, and Florus as fighting like "wild beasts," and as hordes ...49 KB (7,613 words) - 23:47, 3 December 2023
- and the writings of Posidonius of Apamea influenced Livy and Plutarch. Philip Hitti, Professor of Semitic Literature at Princeton University, claimed ...53 KB (7,689 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2023
