Select Bibliography for Polybius and Livy

Polybius

Lexica

Mauersberger, Arno. Polybios-Lexikon Band 1 (alpha-gamma). 2nd ed. Oldenbourg 2000. [first edition Berlin 1956]

Bibliographies

Musti, D. "Polibio negli studi dell’ultimo ventennio (1950-70)." In ANRW II.1 (1972) 1114ff.

General studies

Davidson, J. "The Gaze in Polybius' Histories" JRS 81 (1991) 10-24.

Dubuisson, M. Le latin de Polybe. Paris: Klincksieck 1985.

*Eckstein, A.M. Moral Vision in the Histories of Polybius. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1995.

Eisen, K.F. Polybiosinterpretationen. Beobachtungen zu Prinzipien griechischer und römischer Historiographie bei Polybios. Heidelberg 1966.

*Flurl, W. Deditio in fidem; Untersuchungen zu Livius und Polybios. Augsburg 1969

*Foucault, J. de. Recherches sur la langue et le style de Polybe. Paris 1972.

*Gabba, E., ed. Entretiens sur l’antiquité classique: Polybe. Vandoeuvres-Geneva 1974.

Lehmann, G.A. Untersuchungen zur historischen Glaubwürdigkeit des Polybios. Munster 1967.

Meister, K. Historische Kritik bei Polybios. Wiesbaden 1975.

Momigliano, A. "The Historian's Skin". In Essays in Ancient and Modern Historiography, 67-77. Middletown, CT 1977.

Moore, J.M. The Manuscript Tradition of Polybius. Camrbidge 1965.

*Pédech, P. La Méthode historique de Polybe. Paris 1964.

*Petzold, K.E. Studien zur Methode des Polybios und zu ihrer historischen Auswertung. Munich 1969.

*Pianezzola, Emilio. Traduzione e ideologia. Livio interprete di Polibio. Bologna 1969.

*Sacks, K. Polybius on the Writing of History. UCPCS 24. Berkeley 1981.

Tränkle, H. Livius und Polybios. Stuttgart 1977.

Samokhina, Galina S.. Polybius: the Epoch, the Life, the Work. In Russian. St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg University Press, 1995. (Pp. 192). [rev. BMCR 97.4.19]

Verdin, H., G. Schepens, and E. De Keyser, edd. Purposes of History. Studies in Greek Historiography from the 4th to the 2nd centuries B.C. Louvain 1990. [several articles on Polybius]

*Walbank, F.W. Polybius. Berkeley 1972.

*____________. A Historical Commentary on Polybius. 3 vols. Oxford 1957-79.

*____________. Selected papers: studies in Greek and Roman history and historiography. Cambridge 1985

Weil, R. "La composition de l'Histoire de Polybe." Journal des Savants July-Dec. (1988) 185-206.

Ziegler, K. "Polybios." In Pauly-Wissowa 21,2 (1953) 1440-578.

Livy

Bibliographies

Kissel, W. "Livius 1933-1978. Eine gesamt Bibliographie." ANRW 2.30.2 (1982) 899-997. [good through 1978]

Phillips, J.E. "Current Research in Livy's First Decade: 1958-1979." ANRW 2.30.2 (1982) 998-1057.

various articles on Livy in ANRW 3.20.2

Commentaries

Bayet, J. and P. Jal, edd. Tite-Live. Histoire romaine. Collection G. Budé 1940-1984.

Kraus, C.S., ed. Livy Ab Urbe Condita Book VI. Cambridge 1994/5.

Oakley, S. P., ed., A Commentary on Livy Books VI-X, Vol. 1, Introduction and Book VI. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Ogilvie, R.M., ed. Livy. Books 1-5. Oxford 1965. [The standard commentary on AUC 1-5 in English]

Ross, R.I., ed. *Livy : book V. Edited with introduction, commentary and vocabulary. London: Bristol Classical Press; Newburyport, MA: FocusInformation Group, 1996.

Weissenborn, W. and H.J. Müller, edd. T. Livi Ab Urbe Condita Libri. Berlin 1860-64; second edition 1880.

Walsh, P.G., ed. and trans. Livy Book XL. Aris & Phillips, 1996. [rev. BMCR 96.12.13]

General

Burck, E. Die Erzählungskunst des Titus Livius. New York 1964.

_______, ed. Wege zu Livius. Darmstadt 1967) [a collection of articles on Livy]

*Dorey, T.A., ed. Livy. London 1971. [collection of articles]

Feichtinger, B., "Ad maiorem gloriam Romae. Ideologie und Fiktion in der Historiographie des Livius," Latomus 51.1 (1992) 3.

Feldherr, Andrew. Spectacle and Society in Livy's History. Berkeley 1998.

Fries, Jutta. Der Zweikampf: historische und literarische Aspekte seiner Darstellung bei Livius Konigstein/Ts. 1985.

Hellmann, F. Livius-Interpretationen. Berlin 1939.

Henderson, J. "Livy and the Invention of History." In History as Text, edited by Averil Cameron, 64-85. Chapel Hill 1990.

___________. "Livy and the Inventory of History ('Periocha')." LCM 15.8 (1990) 120-1. [photographic addendum to the previous piece]

*Jaeger, Mary. Livy's Written Rome. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1997. [Levene BMCR 98.9.1

*Kraus, Christina Shuttleworth and A.J. Woodman. Latin Historians. New surveys in the classics, no. 27. Oxford 1997.

Laistner, M.L.W. The Greater Roman Historians. Berkeley 1947.

Levene, D. S. Religion in Livy. E.J. Brill, 1993.

Liebeschuetz, W. "The Religious Position of Livy's History." JRS 57 (1967) 45-55.

*Luce, T.J. Livy. The Composition of his History. Princeton 1977.

McDonald, A.H. "The Style of Livy." JRS 47 (1957) 155-72

Moore, T.J. Artistry and Ideology. Livy's Vocabulary of Virtue. Athenaeum Monograph 192. Frankfurt 1989.

Stadter, P.A. "The Structure of Livy's History." Historia 21 (1972) 287-307.

Syme, R. "Livy and Augustus." HSCP 64 (1959) 22-78.

Walbank, F.W. "History and Tragedy." Historia 9 (1960) 216-34.

Walsh, P.G. "Livy's Preface and the Distortion of History." AJP 76 (1955) 369-83.

_________. "The Literary Techniques of Livy." RhM 97 (1954) 97-114.

_________. "The negligent Historian: Howlers in Livy." G&R 5 (1958) 83-88.

_________. "Livy and Augustus." PACA 4 (1964) 26-37.

_________. "Livy and stoicism." AJP 79 (1958) 355-75.

*_________. Livy. His Historical Aims and Methods. Cambridge 1961.

_________. Livy. Greece & Rome New Series in the Classics no. 8. Oxford 1974.

Will, W. "Imperatoris victi. Bild besiegter römischer Consuln bei Livius." Historia 32 (1983) 173-82.

Historical Studies relating to the Second Punic War

Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. 8, 2nd edition (CUP 1989)

*Cornell, T., Boris Rankov, and Philip Sabin, edd. The Second Punic War: a reappraisal. London 1996

Hoyos, B. D. Unplanned wars : the origins of the First and Second Punic Wars. New York and Berlin 1998.

Peddie, J. Hannibal’s war. Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing 1997.

Schwarte, Karl-Heinz. Der Ausbruch des zweiten punischen Krieges: Rechtsfrage und Überlieferung. Wiesbaden 1983.

Seibert, J. Hannibal, Feldherr und Staatsmann. Mainz am Rhein 1997.