Titus livius biography
Titus livius biography
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Livy
Titus Livius or Livy (59 BCE - 17 CE): Roman historian, author of the authorized version of the history of the Roman republic.
Life
The life of Titus Livius (or Livy, to use his more common English name), is not well known.
Almost everything we know about the author of the voluminous History of Rome from its foundation is derived from a handful of anecdotes recorded by later authors, who may have found them in a (now lost) book by the Roman biographer Suetonius called Historians and philosophers.
Nevertheless, we know something about Livy's life, and that is more than we can say about several other important ancient authors (e.g., Homer).
The Christian author Jerome, an excellent chronographer, states that Livy was born in 59 BCE and died in 17 CE.
There is no evidence to contradict this piece of information. It makes Livy a near contemporary of the Roman politician Octavian, who was born in 63, became sole ruler of the Roman empire in 31, accepted the surname A