num_pages: 699
description: After the decisive defeat of Hannibal in the Second Punic War (218-201), Rome faced a series of challenges from the East - to emerge as master of the Mediterranean in 167 B.C. It is Livy who, by the sheer power of his historical imagination, creates from the bald and often inaccurate souces an enthralling narrative, full of drama and color, compelling personalities and magnificent oratory. With her triumphs over the heirs of Alexander the Great in the Macedonian Wars, world leadership passed forever from Greece to Rome; and Livy shows us the men, heroic but human, who took part in an epoch-making event.
language: English
title: The History of Rome, Books 31-45: Rome and the Mediterranean
titlecomplete: The History of Rome, Books 31-45: Rome and the Mediterranean
genres: Classics, Roman, Historical, History, Ancient History, Italy, European History, Ancient, Greece, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 436
series: "The History of Rome" in Four Volumes
publisher: Penguin Classics