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Course Description

This class will take us to the end of the extant books of Livy’s History of Rome, which tell the story of the Third Macedonian War. This conflict marked the end of the Empire created by Alexander the Great and the beginning of Rome’s Empire. Livy uses this historical framework to depict a moral conflict, embodied in the contrast between the last Greek king, Perseus, and Lucius Aemilius Paullus, the Roman general who defeats him, and the struggle to determine the Roman national character. We will also discuss the Periochae – the epitomes of the lost books of Livy – that are included in the volume. (6 weeks)

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