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Marcus Attilius: The Novice Gladiator Who Beat Rome’s Veterans

Roman Empire Times 07 Oct 2026
Livy, for example, describes games held by Scipio Africanus at New Carthage in 206 BC and deliberately distinguishes those fighters from the slaves and free men normally supplied by trainers ... Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, 28.21.
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Roman Colonies: How Rome Turned Conquest Into Control

Roman Empire Times 03 Oct 2026
Livy's account of Alba Fucens offers the same problem from the perspective of a defeated people ... Livy describes decisions being made community by community rather than through one universal formula ... Livy, Ab Urbe Condita 8.14; 10.1; 39.23; 39.55.
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WHO IS YOUR CLUB'S GREATEST EVER PLAYER? Killie's first among equals, Livi's man for all ...

The Daily Mail 02 Oct 2026
In 1965, an ecstatic Willie Waddell watched his players perform a lap of honour after winning the league title, the only Kilmarnock side ever to do so ....
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The Battle of Pydna: How Rome Broke the Macedonian Phalanx

Roman Empire Times 09 Sep 2026
Polybius preserves Paullus's recollection of the fear inspired by the phalanx, while Livy and Plutarch both describe the later fragmentation of the Macedonian formation ... Livy says that the cavalry left the battlefield with very little loss.
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Roman Astronomers: The Men Who Studied the Stars in Ancient Rome

Roman Empire Times 08 Sep 2026
Much of the technical knowledge available in Rome had Greek foundations ... Credits ... Livy gives a different version ... Livy and Pliny preserve the later version in which his astronomical knowledge becomes an advance prediction ... Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, Book 44.
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The Roman Rudis: The Award That Ended a Gladiator’s Service

Roman Empire Times 01 Sep 2026
Both Polybius and Livy describe mock combat with wooden or blunted weapons. Livy describes the third day of Scipio’s programme ... Polybius 10.20.3, Livy 26.51, and the *Rudis*,” *Classical Philology* 101.2 (2006), 153–160.
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The Fashion and Textile Industry of Ancient Rome

Roman Empire Times 14 Aug 2026
Cato advised estate owners to buy inexpensive clothing in Rome for enslaved agricultural workers, while Livy preserves two unusually large examples of clothing procurement for Roman armies ... Livy, History of Rome.
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Diodorus Siculus: The Historian Who Tried to Write the History of the World

Roman Empire Times 06 Aug 2026
During the first century BCE, Diodorus Siculus undertook one of the largest historical projects attempted in antiquity ... Diodorus relied heavily on earlier histories ... Livy devoted six books to the war, but they survive mainly through short summaries ... H.
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The Social War: Why Rome’s Italian Allies Took Up Arms

Roman Empire Times 05 Aug 2026
For generations, Rome’s Italian allies supplied troops for campaigns throughout the Mediterranean ... Shipley ... Velleius Paterculus ... P. A ... Livy’s surviving summary also places Italian meetings and a conspiracy before the tribune was killed ... L ... D.
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Fabius Maximus: The Roman Who Fought Hannibal by Refusing to Fight

Roman Empire Times 30 Jul 2026
Livy and Polybius place both appointments in the hands of the Roman people ... Livy similarly describes Fabius refusing to risk everything in a general engagement while using smaller encounters to restore the confidence of his men.
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When Rome Burned Books

Roman Empire Times 04 Jul 2026
Rome was a world of writing ... Writing was not an enemy of Roman power ... During the Second Punic War, with Hannibal in Italy and Rome under enormous strain, Livy describes a city troubled by foreign rites, soothsayers, and private religious practices ... ....
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