Research Catalog

Title

Ab urbe condita. Book XXII / Livy ; edited by John Briscoe and Simon Hornblower.

Author

Livy

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne, VIC ; New Delhi, India ; Singapore : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Briscoe, John, 1938-
• Hornblower, Simon

Description

xiii, 365 pages : 4 maps; 23 cm.

Summary

"This book has its origins in the work done by Hornblower after 2015 for a monograph about Lycophron's Alexandra, Rome and the Hellenistic world,1 in which the period of and immediately after the Hannibalic or Second Punic War featured extensively. At that time, he felt the absence of a good, large-scale, up-to-date set of commentary volumes on Livy's third decade, like the series of Oxford commentaries inaugurated by Robert Ogilvie in 1965 (books 1-5) and continued by Stephen Oakley (books 6-10; 1997-2005) and John Briscoe (books 31-45; 1973-2012).2 In 2017 Briscoe, whose Oxford Classical Text of books 21-25 had been published in the previous year, 3 accepted an invitation from Hornblower to collaborate with him on a commentary on book 22. The absence of commentaries mentioned above continues, and the present book is written on different lines, for a different publisher and for a series with particular and explicitly literary aims. We have tried to keep those aims in mind throughout, but the events narrated were historical (however rhetorically handled), and we have sought to do justice to matters of history as well as of literature. The balance of topics covered by the eleven sections of the Introduction aims to reflect this. There is no separate section on topography in the Introduction, but for Trasimene and Cannae in particular, see the introductory notes to 4.1-7.5 and 40.4-50.3 (on this style of reference see below). Hornblower re-visited both Trasimene and Cannae in June 2019. We believe that Lazenby 1978 was right in his locations for the two main battles, and have used his maps as the basis for our own (see further below). Of the ten books which Livy devoted to the Hannibalic War, book 22, the Trasimene and Cannae narrative, was the obvious choice. In the course of our writing, Stephen Oakley remarked to one of us that 'Livy is at his best when writing about Rome's defeats', and by that criterion alone, book 22 stands out within an exceptionally fine and polished decade. Of the other nine, only book 27 rivals it for dramatic power, but that book ends with a Roman victory: the battle of the Metaurus river (207 BC), which as Livy himself says,4 redressed the catastrophe of Cannae"--

Series Statement

Cambridge Greek and Latin classics

Uniform Title

• Ab urbe condita. Liber 22. Latin. (Briscoe and Hornblower)
• Cambridge Greek and Latin classics.

Alternative Title

• Ab urbe condita. Liber 22.
• Ab vrbe condita

Subjects

• History
• Early works
• Rome (Empire)
• Ab urbe condita (Livy)
• Livy > Ab urbe condita Liber 22
• Cannae, Battle of, Italy, 216 B.C
• Lake Trasimene, Battle of, Italy, 217 B.C
• Rome > History > Republic, 265-30 B.C

Genre/Form

• Early works.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language (note)

• Text in English and Latin, partially translated from the Latin.

Call Number

JFD 21-216

ISBN

• 9781108480147
• 1108480144
• 9781108727082
• 1108727085
• 9781108647540 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2020019012

OCLC

1152384951

Author

Livy, author.

Title

Ab urbe condita. Book XXII / Livy ; edited by John Briscoe and Simon Hornblower.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne, VIC ; New Delhi, India ; Singapore : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cambridge Greek and Latin classics

Cambridge Greek and Latin classics.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language

Text in English and Latin, partially translated from the Latin.

Added Author

Briscoe, John, 1938- editor.

Hornblower, Simon, author.

Other Form:

Online version: Livy Ab urbe condita book XXIIi Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020. 9781108647540 (DLC) 2020019013

Research Call Number

JFD 21-216