Book of Donmon Teith

This volume explores the political implications of the first five books of Livy's celebrated history of Rome, challenging the common perception of the author as

Machiavelli saw history in general as a way to learn useful lessons from the past for the present, and also as a type of analysis which could be built upon, as

Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought develops readings of Rome's three most important Latin historians - Sallust, Livy and Tacitus - in light of

This book explores the political implications of stories that Livy recounts in the first pentad of his history of Rome.

Reconstructs the origins of the idea that social conflict, and not concord, makes political communities powerful.