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Titus Livius (59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy, was a Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled Ab Urbe Condita, ”From the Founding of the City”, covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional founding in 753 BC through the reign of Augustus in Livy’s own lifetime. He was on good terms with members of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and was a friend of Augustus. Livy encouraged Augustus’s young grandnephew, the future emperor Claudius, to take up the writing of history.

Livy’s only surviving work is commonly known as History of Rome (or Ab Urbe Condita, ‘From the Founding of the City’). Together with Polybius it is considered one of the main accounts of the Second Punic War (The War with Hannibal)