![]() ![]() There are battles like that of Lake Regillus and rulers both good and bad, the latter best represented by Canuleius the demagogue. The early years of Roman history include the myth of Aeneas and the historic rule by Numa Pompilius whose life was also chronicled by Plutarch. Livy himself was born in Padua in 59 BC and died in 17 AD (about 40 years after the death of Virgil). This is an account that presents prosaic events enlivened with exciting moments of wars, political changes, the evolution from a monarchy to a republic, and great speeches by characters both unfamiliar and, sometimes, larger-than-life. ![]() From the founding myth of Rome, narrated so eloquently by Virgil in The Aeneid, augmented with the tale of Romulus and Remus, Livy tells of the history of the republic to the beginning of the fourth century BC. ![]()
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