List Books » Rome and the Mediterranean: Books XXXI-XLV of The History of Rome From Its Foundation (Ab Urbe Condita)
Authors: Titus Livy, Henry Bettenson (Translator), A. H. McDonald
ISBN-13: 9780140443189, ISBN-10: 0140443185
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: August 1976
Edition: Reprint
After the decisive defeat of Hannibal in the Second Punic War (218-201), Rome faced a series of challenges from the East - to emerge as master of the Mediterranean in 167 B.C. It is Livy who, by the sheer power of his historical imagination, creates from the bald and often inaccurate souces an enthralling narrative, full of drama and color, compelling personalities and magnificent oratory. With her triumphs over the heirs of Alexander the Great in the Macedonian Wars, world leadership passed forever from Greece to Rome; and Livy shows us the men, heroic but human, who took part in an epoch-making event.