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The Early History of Rome: Books I-V of The History of Rome from Its Foundation
Livy
3.71 AVERAGE
39 reviews for:
The Early History of Rome: Books I-V of The History of Rome from Its Foundation
Livy
3.71 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
informative
slow-paced
I DNFed this - oops. Couldn’t get through it, it’s such a thick history to keep track of and sludge through. Very useful though to get at political thought in contemporary Augustan Rome and what they thought of all the past that lay behind them!
2.75!
I didn't give this a 3-star rating purely because it's awfully repetitive. HOWEVER, it is so interesting, and tells the ancient history of Rome beautifully (whether completely factually is up for debate).
If you are interested in Ancient Rome, I highly recommend Books 1, 2, and 5 (instead of chapters the book is divided into 'books') as they are the most interesting.
I didn't give this a 3-star rating purely because it's awfully repetitive. HOWEVER, it is so interesting, and tells the ancient history of Rome beautifully (whether completely factually is up for debate).
If you are interested in Ancient Rome, I highly recommend Books 1, 2, and 5 (instead of chapters the book is divided into 'books') as they are the most interesting.
Livy is our best source for early Roman history. However, it doesn't make his writing much better. In fact, it's kinda like a brick to the brain.
For the POPSUGAR 2016 Reading Challenge, this book is "A Book at least 100 years older than me".
At first, I loved this book. It read like a novel and I found it really interesting. However, the unfortunate thing is that history tends to repeat itself. So, through out "The Early History of Rome", history repeated itself. A lot. It was the same battles and the same political problems, just different people involved. Until the end. Then it changed. But, the middle was hard to get through because it was a lot of the same.
My favourite thing about Livy is that he included the Gods in his history. Take the founding stories for example. Even if the founding of Rome didn't happen like that, the people of Rome believe it did and that is a very powerful thing. So, even though the legitimacy of the events is debatable, Livy still recorded it as history. He even says in his introduction that it isn't his job to judge whether or not something happened.
Definitely an important read if you are into Roman history. Livy does a really good job in the first five of his books. The fact that history tends to repeat itself isn't his fault!
At first, I loved this book. It read like a novel and I found it really interesting. However, the unfortunate thing is that history tends to repeat itself. So, through out "The Early History of Rome", history repeated itself. A lot. It was the same battles and the same political problems, just different people involved. Until the end. Then it changed. But, the middle was hard to get through because it was a lot of the same.
My favourite thing about Livy is that he included the Gods in his history. Take the founding stories for example. Even if the founding of Rome didn't happen like that, the people of Rome believe it did and that is a very powerful thing. So, even though the legitimacy of the events is debatable, Livy still recorded it as history. He even says in his introduction that it isn't his job to judge whether or not something happened.
Definitely an important read if you are into Roman history. Livy does a really good job in the first five of his books. The fact that history tends to repeat itself isn't his fault!
Fascinating. Reading and thinking...wait...this happened in history? Things that I've seen in my lifetime happening thousand's of years before. Intriguing to think as a human race, we have evolved in some ways and in many others we haven't changed.
the tribunes the original Marxists, we simply do not strike as Romans did back then.... we really ought to learn from them
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book 6.--(history class)
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book 6.--(history class)
2.75!
I didn't give this a 3-star rating purely because it's awfully repetitive. HOWEVER, it is so interesting, and tells the ancient history of Rome beautifully (whether completely factually is up for debate).
If you are interested in Ancient Rome, I highly recommend Books 1, 2, and 5 (instead of chapters the book is divided into 'books') as they are the most interesting.
I didn't give this a 3-star rating purely because it's awfully repetitive. HOWEVER, it is so interesting, and tells the ancient history of Rome beautifully (whether completely factually is up for debate).
If you are interested in Ancient Rome, I highly recommend Books 1, 2, and 5 (instead of chapters the book is divided into 'books') as they are the most interesting.