Titus Livius: The Early History Of Rome

Titus Livius and The Early History of Rome

Roman history is subjective to those who study it and write about the rise and the fall of the Roman Empire. One ancient historian named Titus Livius, who was born in either 59 B.C. or 64 B.C. , had written a series of books titled History of Rome. Not much is known about Titus Livius in his younger years except that he had lived in the city of Padua, which had suffered greatly in Rome’s Civil War. His books are split into several different decades of Rome’s rich history. The first series he wrote in History of Rome are broken down in five separate book(s) titled: “Rome under the Kings”, “The Beginning of the Republic”, “The Patricians at Bay”, “War and Politics”, and lastly “The Capture of Rome”.
These first five books in the first series layout the history that Livius was writing about in Rome’s earliest inception and during his lifetime. Unfortunately, there was a fire that destroyed much of Rome’s recorded history which Livius records in his sixth book. Much of Rome’s literature, legends, and myths were borrowed heavily from the Greeks who had a heavy influence on Roman culture. Titus Livius is attempting to portray the first five books in an accurate historical setting that future historians and …show more content…
Livius’s account of history will always be scrutinized in depth on how accurate his work was. Often, historians are biased in their research and methodology often trying to point out flaws in other researchers. Titus Livius had to refer back to earlier Roman historians to ensure that his history would be accurate as possible. He does a remarkable job in this book of telling the reader what Roman history did in the ancient