THE EDITOR Bernard Mineo is Professor of Latin Literature at the Université de Nantes in Brittany, France. He is the author of a monograph on Livy entitled Tite-Live et l'histoire de Rome (2006), and editor of Book 32 of Livy's Roman History for the Collection des Universités de France (2003).

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• Figures ixMaps xiNotes on Contributors xviiAbbreviations xxiiiIntroduction: Livy xxxiBernard MineoPart I Text and Context 11 Livian Manuscript Tradition 3Marielle de Franchis2 Historical Context of the Ab Urbe Condita 24Barbara LevickPart II Ideological and Historical Aspects 373 Portraits of Peoples 39Jacques-Emmanuel Bernard4 Rome, Magna Graecia, and Sicily in Livy from 326 to 200 BC 52Kathryn Lomas5 Urban Landscape, Monuments, and the Building of Memory in Livy 65Mary Jaeger6 Livy and Religion 78John Scheid7 Livy’s Liturgical Order: Systematization in the History 90Frances Hickson Hahn8 Livy’s Use of Exempla 102Jane D. Chaplin9 Roman Wars and Armies in Livy 114Yann Le Bohec10 Livy’s Political and Moral Values and the Principate 125Bernard Mineo11 Livy’s Historical Philosophy 139Bernard MineoPart III Literary Aspects 15312 Livy and Indo-European Comparatism 155Dominique Briquel13 Livy and the Annalistic Tradition 167Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg14 The Complications of Quellenforschung: The Case of Livy and Fabius Pictor 178James H. Richardson15 Livy and the Greek Historians from Herodotus to Dionysius: Some Soundings and Reflections 190Craige B. Champion16 Allusions and Intertextuality in Livy’s Third Decade 205David S. Levene17 The Composition of the Ab Urbe Condita: The Case of the First Pentad 217Ann Vasaly18 Reading Livy’s Book 5 230Stephen P. OakleyPart IV Book 1. The Regal Period 24319 Livy’s Narrative of the Regal Period and Historical and Archaeological Facts 245Timothy Cornell20 Livy’s Narrative of the Regal Period: Structure and Ideology 259Paul-Marius Martin21 Literary Archetypes for the Regal Period 274Marianna Scapini22 The Representation of the Regal Period in Livy 286Matthew FoxPart V Book 1–5. From Tarquinius Superbus to the Siege of Rome by the Gauls (390 BC) 29923 Tarquin the Superb and the Proclamation of the Roman Republic 301Attilio Mastrocinque24 The Beginnings of the Republic from 509 to 390 BC 314Gary ForsythePart VI Book 6–10. From the Siege of Rome (390 BC) to Sentinum (295 BC) 32725 From 390 BC to Sentinum: Diplomatic and Military Livian History 329Ghislaine Stouder26 From 390 BC to Sentinum: Political and Ideological Aspects 342Michel HummPart VII Books 21–45. From the Second Punic War to Pydna 36727 Rome and Carthage in Livy 369Dexter Hoyos28 Livy: Overseas Wars 382Giovanni Brizzi and Giambattista Cairo29 The Roman Republic and its Internal Politics between 232 and 167 BC 394Klaus Bringmann30 Livy, Polybius, and the Greek East (Books 31–45) 407Arthur M. EcksteinPart VIII Books 1–142/150. Periochae 42331 The Periochae 425Luigi BessonePart IX Reception 43732 The Transmission of Livy from the End of the Roman Empire to the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century: Distortion or Discovery, a Story of Corruption 439Pierre MaréchauxIndex 453