Episode LXXXI - Livy

03/10/2017 26 min

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Episode Synopsis

Livy was an historian writing during the Augustan age of Rome, who wrote one of the empire’s most famous works – an extensive and exhaustive history, spanning 142 books. Of those we have the first quarter, and they’ve influenced every work on Rome that has been written since.

Guest: Professor Ronald Ridley (Honorary,Historical and Philosophical studies, University of Melbourne).