Jane D. Chaplin is Professor of Classics at Middlebury College.Christina S. Kraus is Professor of Classics at Yale University.

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• Introduction ; I. OUTLOOK ; 1. The Dating of Livy's First Decade ; 2. Livy's Preface ; II. STRUCTURE ; 3. The Structure of Livy's History ; 4. Structuring Roman History: the Consular Year and the Roman Historical Tradition ; 5. Design and Structure in Livy: 5.32-55 ; III. LANGUAGE AND STYLE ; 6. Comedy, Wit, and Humour in Livy ; 7. Literary Techniques of Livy ; 8. The Style of Livy ; 9. Form and Language in Livy's Triumph Notices ; IV. NARRATIVE ; 10. An Introduction to Books 29 and 30 ; 11. Livy and the Story of Horatius I.24-26 ; 12. Livy's Comic Narrative of the Bacchanalia ; V. CULTURAL HISTORY ; 13. The Religious Position of Livy's History ; 14. The Body Female and the Body Politic: Livy's Lucretia and Verginia ; 15. Livy's Revolution: Civic Identity and the Creation of the res publica ; VI. SOURCES AND WORKING METHODS ; 16. Livy and his Sources ; 17. Livy's Sources and Methods of Composition in Books 31-33 ; 18. Livy and Polybius