Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita

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Livy’s *Ab Urbe Condita* is a monumental multi-volume history of Rome written in Latin, tracing the city’s legendary founding through the early empire and shaping later European views of Roman history and virtue.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Latin prose
Roman historiography
historical work
associatedPlace Rome
author Livy
centralTheme Roman virtue
moral exempla
rise and decline of states
coversPeriodFrom legendary founding of Rome
coversPeriodTo early Roman Empire
dedicatedTo none explicitly stated
features accounts of Roman kings
accounts of Roman wars
biographical sketches of Roman leaders
history of the Roman Republic
legendary narratives about Rome’s origins
genre annalistic history
history
hasReception central text in medieval education
major source for modern Roman history
widely read in Renaissance Europe
influenced Renaissance humanism
early modern political thought
later European views of Roman history
intendedFunction moral instruction
patriotic celebration of Rome
literaryPeriod Augustan age
narrativeStyle continuous year-by-year narrative
originalTitleLanguage Latin
politicalContext reign of Augustus
portraysFigure Augustus
Cincinnatus
Hannibal
Julius Caesar
Numa Pompilius
Romulus
Scipio Africanus
preservationStatus partially lost
subject history of Rome
survivingPortions continuous books 1–10
continuous books 21–45
fragments of other books
timeOfComposition early 1st century CE
late 1st century BCE
titleTranslation From the Founding of the City
usesSourceType archival records
earlier Roman annalists
oral traditions
writtenIn prose

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The Oath of the Horatii basedOn Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Romulus and Remus narratedIn Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Romulus and Remus narratedIn Dionysius of Halicarnassus’s Roman Antiquities
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Livy notableWork Ab Urbe Condita
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Livy booksSurvivingRange Books 1–10 of Ab Urbe Condita
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Battle of Cannae describedIn Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Sidicini mentionedIn Ab Urbe Condita
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Polybius’ Histories influenced Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Horatii brothers narrativeSource Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Sabine women mentionedIn Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Tatius mentionedIn Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Hersilia appearsIn Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita (as a character in early Roman history)
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Battle of Trebia describedIn Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Battle of Lake Trasimene primarySource Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Cacus describedIn Ab Urbe Condita
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Sixth Syrian War primarySource Livy, Ab Urbe Condita
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Augustan age hasMainWork Ab Urbe Condita
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Haliartus mentionedIn Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Ascanius appearsInWork Ab Urbe Condita
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Discourses on Livy basedOn Ab Urbe Condita
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Rhea Silvia appearsIn Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Faustulus appearsIn Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Lucius Tarquinius Superbus describedInWork Ab Urbe Condita
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Servius Tullius describedIn Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Romulus describedIn Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Amulius narratedIn Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Lucius Tarquinius Priscus narratedIn Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Masinissa describedIn Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Alba Longa mentionedIn Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Liternum mentionedIn writings of Livy
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Siege of Saguntum describedIn Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Regia mentionedIn Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Battle of Herdonia (212 BC) primarySource Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Roman–Samnite Wars historicalSource Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Battle of Lake Regillus source Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Publius Valerius Publicola describedIn Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Sabines mentionedIn Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
subject linked to: Sabine
Lucrece literarySource Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Latin War describedIn Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita, Book 8
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Tiberius Sempronius Longus describedIn Ab Urbe Condita
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Curiatii of Alba Longa describedIn Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Alban–Roman conflict settlement hasSource Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Battle of Baecula hasPrimarySource Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Scotussa mentionedIn Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Virtus appearsIn Livy's history of Rome
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Aventinus mentionedIn works of Livy
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Temple of Diana (Aventine Hill) mentionedIn Livy, Ab Urbe Condita
subject linked to: Temple of Diana
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Roman–Etruscan wars describedIn Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Cremera mentionedIn Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita