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Rome and the Mediterranean: Books XXXI-XLV of The History of Rome from Its Foundation (Penguin Classics) Paperback – August 26, 1976

by Titus Livy (Author), Henry Bettenson (Translator), A. H. McDonald (Introduction)
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Books XXXI to XLV cover the years from 201 b.c. to 167 b.c., when Rome emerged as ruler of the Mediterranean.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Titus Livius (59BC-AD17) began working on his History of Rome at the age of 30 and continued for over 40 years until his death. The history ran to 142 books, of which 35 survive.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Classics; First Edition (August 26, 1976)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 704 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0140443185
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140443189
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.06 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.1 x 1.23 x 7.8 inches
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This edition is missing parts of the text. Not all of Livy is extant, but I compared this with the audiobook, and there are parts missing. The editor does not indicate where text has been omitted or has not been preserved. So embarrassing!
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Aran Joseph Canes
5.0 out of 5 stars An Acquired Taste
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2020
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Livy’s History of Rome is somewhat of an acquired taste. When I first began reading Volume I, I was disappointed in the lack of descriptions of cultures, political systems or anything other than description after description of battle, bloodshed and plunder.

But after having read all some twenty five hundred pages in the Penguin editions, I’ve grown in appreciation. Livy’s project, similar to Plutarch, was to provide first century Romans with a idealized version of their past. The great Roman virtues of courage, temperance and justice are exemplified in the generals and soldiers who populate the text. Livy meant to encourage the Roman citizens living lives of comparative luxury with their more Spartan predecessors.

Not that the endless description of war doesn’t get a little tiresome. But I do not regret that I began a personal project of reading all of it. Not for everyone, to be sure, but for those who want to understand the the peculiar gens of the Roman people it is an essential source.
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Paddler
5.0 out of 5 stars A sense of perspective
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2015
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Has anything really changed? I find starting my day with the New York Times and ending it with Livy as I read in bed gives me a sense of perspective. Are things so different for us here in the US than they were for the Romans aroound 200 BC? Livy gives us a blow-by-blow description of what was, for him, rather long in the past as Rome was struggling to deal with the political realities of the Mediterranean world. Our world now is the whole globe, but it is still full of contending powers seeking to assert control over other territories and people. We think our stakes are higher now, but I'm not so sure. Surely not for the individual citazen. After all, if you survived your side's loss of one of those many wars, you would become a slave.
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Benny Valete
5.0 out of 5 stars Dense but worth it!
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2021
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I understand that many people struggle to get through his chronological style of writing, and the books are dense. Nevertheless, I think it is a wonderful read with lots of interesting tidbits, like the crisis of the Bachic cults in Rome! Personally, I also love his prose.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great condition
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2022
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Great looking book
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Jason Goetz
4.0 out of 5 stars Decent, not Livy's best.
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2013
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I will admit off the top that this book did not interest me--in its subject matter--as much as the earlier volumes of Livy's famous history, especially the birth of Rome and the one about the Second Punic War. I am not a lover of Greece after the Peloponnesian War and especially after Alexander the Great.

Nevertheless I found value in it, as I usually do in classics. It holds clear relevance for the present: Rome's dealings with multiple Greek kings of similar outlook and conduct serves as an immediate reminder of our recent conflicts with Mubarak and Qaddafi and others in the same North African region. The end was, for me, more intriguing than the beginning. I particularly enjoyed the Roman envoy circling around Antiochus and demanding his adherence to a Roman-imposed peace. I enjoyed watching Perseus fall victim to his own arrogance and criminality. The long speech justifiying the triumph of Aemelius Paulus was in my opinion one of the greatest speeches of all time, even if written by Livy and not by the speaker to whom he attributed it, and deserves to be studied alongside those of Cicero and Demosthenes and Clay and Churchill.

I was a little bit frustrated at how much was cut out. I could not tell whether this was due to lacunae in the existing manuscripts or to the editor's judgment. Still at 648 pages of text it was more than enough for me, and I am thankful to be done with all 2100 extant pages of Livy!
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5.0 out of 5 stars As discribed.
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2020
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As discribed..
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5.0 out of 5 stars great
Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2020
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Andrew Searing
5.0 out of 5 stars great publisher!
Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2018
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Classic work, great publisher!
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Mat Snow
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 12, 2015
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Patrick Sullivan
5.0 out of 5 stars A Roman History
Reviewed in Canada on October 2, 2010
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Livy seems to be a different type of historian, then his material on the foundation of Rome. Livy would ratchet up the stories of early Rome. He would also focus in on the various characters, that were involved in the stories.There were clear lessons to be learned, regarding good and evil characters.
In the history of Rome and the Mediterranean, Livy is much more of a chronological recorder of events. Every detail seems to be written down. This can at times, turn the reading into a bit of a grind. I was torn between a four and five star rating, because of the slow reading sections.
I was also very surprised to find this out, because his other material at times can feel like a fast paced novel.
I might also add, that some of the details were absolutely fascinating. The social details of the various societies, were very interesting. The details regarding Hannibal after his final defeat, was an area I knew very little about. Livy also identifies the start of the good the life. He details the changes to religious customs, that started including wine and feasting.The Romans also started the pursuit of luxury goods, in their regular aspects of living. Livy is horrified at the decline in social morals. This is also somewhat entertaining, because we all know what happened to morality, in the later Roman Empire.
Over all, the reader will get a good look into the Roman world of that period in time. It is just going to take a while, to get through the material.
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Miles
3.0 out of 5 stars Importante pero un poco aburido
Reviewed in Spain on January 17, 2013
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Este libro esta importante para entender y saber de las guerras de Roma contra Samnio pero requiere un poco de disciplina para terminarlo
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