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Livy: The Early History of RomePenguin Classics Livy dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of history, the first five of which comprise The Early History of Rome. With stylistic brilliance, he chronicles nearly 400 years from the founding of Rome to the Gallic invasion in 386 BC, an era that witnessed the establishment of the Republic, unrest and brutal conflict. Bringing compelling characters to life, and re presenting familiar tales including the tragedy of

Such important and controversial themes can be examined through the prism of the ancient world

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In 81 BC Sextus Roscius

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Virgil’s Aeneid explores and symbolises those aspirations in epic narrative through the myth of the Trojan hero Aeneas