![]() Oxford world’ s classics For over 100 years Oxford World’s Classics have brought readers closer to the world’s great literature. His most recent publications include Unplanned Wars (1998), on the causes of the first two Punic Wars, and Hannibal’s Dynasty: Power and Politics in the Western Mediterranean 247–183 B.C. Dexter Hoyos was born in Barbados, studied at Oxford, and teaches Roman history and historians, and Latin, at Sydney University. His most recent books are Justin and Pompeius Trogus (2003) and (with Waldemar Heckel) Alexander the Great (2004). He has also translated The Dawn of the Roman Empire (Books 31–40 of Livy’s history) for Oxford World’s Classics, as well as Quintus Curtius’ History of Alexander for Penguin Classics (1984) and Justin for the American Philological Association Classical Resources series (1994) and (Books 11–12) for the Clarendon Ancient History series (1997). Yardley has been Professor and Head of Classics at the Universities of Calgary and Ottawa and is a former President of the Classical Association of Canada. He appears to have had the means to spend his life largely in writing his huge history of Rome, Ab Urbe Condita or ‘From the Foundation of the City’, which filled 142 books and covered the period from Rome’s founding to the death of the elder Drusus (753–9 bc). There is no evidence that he was a senator or held other governmental posts, although he was acquainted with the emperor Augustus and his family, at least by his later years. He came to Rome in the 30s bc and began writing his history of Rome not long after. ![]() HANNIBAL’S WAR books twenty-one to thirty Titus Livius (Livy), the historian, was born in Patavium (modern Padua) in 64 or 59 bc and died in ad 12 or 17 in Patavium, surviving therefore into his late seventies or early eighties.
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