Prepared by Timothy J. Moore

Washington University in St. Louis


Note: abbreviations follow L’Année Philologique

Texts

Oxford Classical Texts:

  • Vol. 1, Books 1-5, ed. R.M. Ogilvie, 1974.
  • Vol. 2, Books 6-10, edd. C.F. Walters and R.S. Conway, 1919.
  • Vol. 3, Books 21-25, edd. C.F. Walters and R.S. Conway, 1929.
  • Vol. 4, Books 26-30, edd. S.K. Johnson and R.S. Conway, 1935.
  • Vol. 5, Books 31-35, ed. A.H. McDonald, 1965.
  • Vol. 6, Books 36-40, ed. P.G. Walsh, 1999.

Teubner Texts:

  • Books 1-10, 31-45, edd. W. Weissenborn, M. Müller, and W. Heraeus, Leipzig 1887-1908.
  • Books 21-25, ed. T.A. Dorey, Leipzig, 1971-76.
  • Books 26-27, ed. P.G. Walsh, 2nd ed., Leipzig, 1989.
  • Books 28-30, ed. P.G. Walsh, Leipzig, 1986.
  • Books 31-40, ed. John Briscoe, Stuttgart, 1991.
  • Books 41-45, ed. John Briscoe, Stuttgart, 1986.

Budé Texts:

  • Most books, Fragments, Periochae, edd. J. Bayet et al., 1940-.

Bibliographies

  • W. Kissel, “Livius 1933-1978: Eine Gesamtbibliographie,” ANRW 2.30.2 (1982) 899-997.
  • J.E. Phillips, “Current Research on Livy’s First Decade: 1959-1979,” ANRW 2.30.2 (1982) 998-1057.
  • V. Viparelli, “Rassegna di studi liviani,” BStudLat 4 (1974) 49-66.

Commentaries

On all the extant books

  • W. Weissenborn and H.J. Müller (2nd ed., Berlin, 1880).

On Books 1-5

  • R. M. Ogilvie, A Commentary on Livy Books 1-5 (Oxford, 1965; repr. with addenda, 1970).

On Book 6

  • C.S. Kraus, Livy: Ab urbe condita VI. (Cambridge, Eng., 1994).

On Books 6-10

  • Oakley, Stephen P., A Commentary on Livy, Books VI-X. (Oxford, Eng, 1997-2007).

On Books 31-40

  • John Briscoe, A Commentary on Livy Books XXXI-XXXIII (Oxford, 1973).
  • John Briscoe, A Commentary on Livy Books XXXIV-XXXVII (Oxford, 1981).
  • John Briscoe, A Commentary on Livy Books XXXVIII-XL (Oxford, 2008).

On Books 36-40

  • P.G. Walsh , Livy, Book XXXVI-Book XL (5 vols., Warminster, Eng., 1990-)

Concordance

  • David Packard, A Concordance to Livy (4 volumes, Cambridge, MA, 1968).

General

  • Bernard, Jacques-Emmanuel, Le portrait chez Tite-Live (Brussels, 2000).
  • Bornecque, Henri, Tite-Live (Paris, 1933).
  • Burck Erich (ed.), Wege zu Livius (2nd ed., Darmstadt, 1977, a collection of essays).
  • Catin, Léon, En lisant Tite-Live (Paris, 1944).
  • Chaplin, Jane D., Livy’s Exemplary History. (Oxford, 2000).
  • Chaplin, Jane D. and Christina S. Kraus (edd.), Oxford Readings in Livy (New York, 2009, reprints of 18 seminal essays).
  • Dorey T.A. (ed.), Livy (London, 1971, a collection of essays).
  • Feldherr, Andrew, Spectacle and Society in Livy’s History (Berkeley, 1998).
  • Feldherr, Andrew (ed.),
  •  (Cambridge, Eng., 2009).
    Forsythe, Gary. Livy and Early Rome: A Study in Historical Method and Judgement. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1999.
  • Gries, K., “The Personality of T. Livius,” in Hommages à Marcel Renard, Vol. 1, ed. Jacqueline Bibauw (Collection Latomus 101, Brussels, 1969).
  • Hellmann, L., Livius-Interpretationen (Berlin, 1939).
  • Jaeger, Mary, Livy’s Written Rome (Ann Arbor, 1997).
  • Johner, Anita , La violence chez tite-Live: Mythographie et historiographie (Strasburg, 1996).
  • Levene, D. S. Livy on the Hannibalic War. (Oxford, 2010).
  • Lipovsky,James P., A Historiographical Study of Livy: Books VI-X (Salem, NH, 1984).
  • Laistner, M.L.W., The Greater Roman Historians (Berkeley, 1947).
  • Luce, T.J., Livy: The Composition of His History (Princeton, 1977).
  • Polleichtner, Wolfgang (ed.), Intertextuality in Livy (Trier, 2010).
  • Miles, Gary B., Livy: Reconstructing Early Rome (Ithaca, NY, 1995).
  • Schuller Wolfgang (ed.). Livius: Aspekte seines Werkes (Konstanz, 1993).
  • Soltau, W., Livius’ Geschichtswerk: Seine Composition und seine Quellen (Leipzig, 1897).
  • H. Taine, Essai sur Tite Live (8th ed., Paris, 1910).
  • Walsh,P.G., Livy. Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics 8 (Oxford, 1974).
  • Walsh, P. G., Livy: His Historical Aims and Methods (Cambridge, 1963)
  • Warrior, Valerie M., Initiation of the Second Macedonian War: An Explication of Livy Book 31 (Stuttgart, Franz Stein, 1996).

Livy and Augustus

  • Jürgen Deininger, “Livius und der Prinzipat,” Klio 67 (1985) 265-72.
  • T.J. Luce, “The Dating of Livy’s First Decade,” TAPhA 96 (1965) 209-40.
  • E. Mensching, “Livius, Cossus und Augustus,” Museum Helveticum 24 (1967) 12-32.
  • H.J. Mette, “Livius und Augustus,” Gymnasium 68 (1961) 269-85.
  • W.R. Nethercut, “Additions to the Search for Augustan Influence in Livy” CB 45 (1969) 33-37.
  • H. Petersen. “Livy and Augustus,” TAPhA 92 (1961) 440-52.
  • Ronald Syme, “Livy and Augustus,” HSPh 64 (1959) 27-87.
  • A.J. Woodman, Rhetoric in Classical Historiography (London, 1988, Chapter 3).

Philosophical and Religious Views

  • Iiro Kajanto, God and Fate in Livy (Turku, 1957).
  • D.S. Levene, Religion in Livy (Leiden, 1993).
  • W. Liebeschuetz, “The Religious Position of Livy’s History,” JRS 57 (1967) 45-55.
  • Gerhard Stübler, Die Religiosität des Livius (Stuttgart, 1941, repr. Amsterdam, 1964).
  • P.G. Walsh, “Livy and Stoicism,” AJPh 79 (1958) 355-75.

Moral Outlook

  • Ladislaus J. Bolchazy, Hospitality in Early Rome: Livy’s Concept of its Humanizing Force (Chicago, 1977).
  • Erich Burck, “Livius als augusteischer Historiker,” Die Welt als Geschichte 1 (1935) 446-87.
  • H. Hoch, Die Darstellung der politischen Sendung Roms bei Livius (Frankfurt, 1951).
  • Mario Mazza, Storia e ideologia in Livio (Catania 1966).
  • Lydia Haberman, “nefas ab libidine ortum: Sexual Morality and Politics in the Early Books of Livy,” CB 57 (1980) 8-11.
  • Heinz Haffter, “Rom und römische Ideologie bei Livius,” Gymnasium 71 (1964) 236-50.
  • Lydia Halle, “A Study of Moralization in Livy,” Dissertation, Bryn Mawr, 1957.
  • David Konstan, “Narrative and Ideology in Livy Book 1,” ClAnt 5 (1986) 198-215.
  • Timothy J. Moore, Artistry and Ideology: Livy’s Vocabulary of Virtue (Frankfurt, 1989).
  • P.G. Walsh, “Livy’s Preface and the Distortion of History,” AJPh 76 (1955) 369-83.

Women

  • Patricia Klindienst Joplin, “Ritual Work on Human Flesh: Livy’s Lucretia and the Rape of the Body Politic,” Helios 17 (1990) 51-70.
  • Barbara Kowalewski, Frauengestalten im Geschichtswerk des T. Livius (Munich,2002).
  • Christina S. Kraus, “initium turbandi omnia a femina ortum est: Fabia Minor and the Election of 367 B.C.,” Phoenix 45 (1991) 314-25.
  • Francesca Santoro L’Hoir, The Rhetoric of Gender Terms: “Man,” “Woman,” and the Portrayal of Character in Latin Prose (Leiden, 1992).
  • S.E. Smethurst, “Women in Livy’s History,” G&R 19 (1950) 80-87.

Sources

Texts

  • Hermann Peter, Historicorum Romanorum Reliquiae, Vol. 1 (2nd edition, Leipzig, 1914, repr. Stuttgart, 1967).
  • Polybius, ed. T. Büttner-Wobst, 1889-1914 (Teubner text, repr. Stuttgart, 1964-1967).
  • Chassignet, M. L’annalistique Romaine. Volumes I-II (Paris, 1996-)
  • Hans Beck and Uwe Walter, Die Frühen Römischen Historiker, Volumes I-II (Darmstadt, 2001-2004).

Modern works

  • Ernst Badian, “The Early Historians,” in Latin Historians, ed. T.A. Dorey (London, 1966).
  • Ingrid Edlund, “Before Zama: A Comparison Between Polubios’ and Livy’s Descriptions of the Meeting Between Hannibal and Scipio,” Eranos 65 (1967) 146-68.
  • Bruce Woodward Frier, Libri Annales Pontificum Maximorum: The Origins of the Annalistic Tradition (Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome 27, 1979).
  • M. Gelzer, “Der Anfang römischer Geschichtsschreibung,” Hermes 69 (1934) 46-55 (=Kleine Schriften 3, 93-110).
  • Alfred Klotz, Livius und seine Vorgänger (Leipzig-Berlin, 1940-1941, repr. Amsterdam, 1964).
  • E.Meyer, “Die römische Annalistik im Lichte der Urkunden,” ANRW 1.2 (1972) 970-86.
  • H. Nissen, Kritische Untersuchungen über die Quellen der vierten und fünften Dekade des Livius (Berlin, 1868).
  • R.M. Ogilvie, “Livy, Licinius Macer and the Libri Lintei,” JRS 48 (1958) 40-46.
  • Elizabeth Rawson, “The First Latin Annalists,” Latomus 35 (1976) 689-717.
  • Hermann Tränkle, Livius und Polybios (Basel, 1977).
  • F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius (3 volumes, Oxford, 1957-1979).
  • F.W. Walbank, Polybius (Berkeley, 1972).
  • T.P. Wiseman, Clio’s Cosmetics: Three Studies in Greco-Roman Literature (Leicester, 1979, esp. chapters 1-8).

Style and Language

  • H. Aili, “Livy’s Language: A Critical Survey of Research,” ANRW 2.30.2 (1982) 1122-47.
  • J.N. Adams, “The Vocabulary of the Later Decades of Livy,” Antichthon 8 (1974) 54-62.
  • Erich Burck, Die Erzählungskunst des T. Livius (2nd ed., Berlin, 1934).
  • J.-P. Chausserie-Laprée, L’Expression narrative chez les historiens latins (Paris, 1969).
  • K. Gries, Constancy in Livy’s Latinity (New York, 1947).
  • Kurt Latte, “Livy’s Patavinitas,” CPh 35 (1940) 56-60.
  • A.D. Leeman, Orationis Ratio (Amsterdam, 1963).
  • A.H. McDonald, “The Style of Livy,” JRS 47 (1957) 155-72.
  • A.H. McDonald, “Theme and Style in Roman Historiography,” JRS 65 (1975) 1-10.
  • Eduard Norden, Die antike Kunstprosa , Vol. 1 (Leipzig, 1915).
  • J.E. Phillips, “Form and Language in Livy’s Triumph Notices,” CPh 69 (1974) 265-73.
  • R.B. Steele, Case Usage in Livy: Genitive, Accusative, Ablative (Leipzig, 1910-1913).
  • H. Tränkle, “Beobachtungen und Erwägungen zum Wandel der livianischen Sprache,” WS n.s. 2 (1968) 103-152.
  • Ragnar Ullmann, La Technique des discours dans Salluste, Tite-Live et Tacite: La matière et la composition (Oslo, 1927).
  • Ragnar Ullmann, Étude sur le style des discours de Tite-Live (Oslo, 1929).
  • K. Witte, “Über die Form der Darstellung in Livius Geschichtswerk” RhM 65 (1910) 270-305, 359-419.

The Lost Books and the Periochae

  • Cynthia M. Begbie, “The Epitome of Livy,” Classical Quarterly 17 (1967) 332-38.
  • L. Bessone, “La tradizione epitomatoria liviana in età imperiale,” ANRW 2.30.2 (1982) 1230-63.
  • William Joseph Bingham, “A Study of the Livian Periochae and their Relation to Livy’s Ab urbe condita,” Dissertation, Univ. of Illinois, 1978.
  • Alfred Klotz, “Zu den Periochae des Livius,” Philologus 91 (1936) 67-88.
  • P.A. Stadter, “The Structure of Livy’s History,” Historia 21 (1972) 287-307.
  • Günther Wille, Der Aufbau des Livianischen Geschichtswerks (Amsterdam, 1973).

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