Livy : one of the three great Roman historians (other two were Sallust & Tacitus). He wrote a history of Rome, a classic in his own lifetime, & exercised a profound influence on the style & philosophy of historical writing down to 18th cent.
... inner mind and life, while the rest of its literature remains derivative and second-hand in its every fibre. We get to the heart of Roman life and character in Roman Satires, the annalistic histories of Livy & Tacitus, the Letters of Cicero or Pliny, but in the more splendid & ambitious portions of Latin literature we get only the half Greek dress in which the Roman mind learned to disguise itself. Let ...
... if to them, as to Milton, the world's processes were familiar matters. John Bailey 6 well observes: " 'War seemed a civil game / To this uproar,' says Raphael, as if he were fresh from reading Livy or Gibbon and had all the wars of Europe and Asia in his memory... and, interesting as the passages are, it is difficult to forget the incongruity of Raphael and Adam discussing the Ptolemaic and ...
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