Tito livio ab urbe condita in english

Roman historian (59 BC – AD 17)

For people with the given name or nickname, see Livy (given name).

Titus Livius (Latin:[ˈtɪtʊsˈliːwiʊs]; 59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy (LIV-ee), was a Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled Ab Urbe Condita, ''From the Founding of the City'', covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional founding in 753 BC through the reign of Augustus in Livy's own lifetime.

He was on good terms with members of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and was a friend of Augustus,^[1] whose young grandnephew, the future emperor Claudius, he encouraged to take up the writing of history.^[2]

Life

Livy was born in Patavium in northern Italy, now modern Padua, probably in 59 BC.^[ii] At the time of his birth, his home city of Patavium was the second wealthiest on the Italian peninsula, and the largest in the province of Cisalpine Gaul (