Ab Urbe Condita Libri

Ab Urbe Condita Libri or the History of Rome from its
foundation written by the Roman Historian Titus Livy was one of the greatest pieces
of historical writing ever produced. In one hundred and forty-two books, the
book covers Rome’s history from its mythical origins to the time of Caesar
Augustus the work ending with the death of Nero Claudius Drusus in the year of
9 BC. Only around 25% of the work survives this being as follows Books 1-10, books
21-45. However summaries for the other books have survived giving us a rough
outline of the entire work.
 	
Books 1-5 	The Mythical Orgins of Rome
Books 6-10 	The Italian Wars
Books 11-15 	The Unification of Italy
Books 16-20 	The First Punic War
Books 21-30 	War against Hannibal (Second Punic War)
Books 31-40 	Rome's Wars in the Mediterranean
Books 41-45 	Rome's Mediterranean Empire
Books 46-55 	Third Punic War and conquest of Greece
Books 56-60 	First Servile War and Roman Constitutional Crisis
Books 60-65 	Jugurthine War
Books 66-70 	The Campaigns of General Marius
Books 71-75 	The Social Wars
Books 76-90 	Sulla's Wars and Dictatorship
Books 91-105 	The Campaigns of Caesar and Pompey
Books 106-115	The Civil War
Books 117-120	Death of Caesar and War of Mutina
Books 121-133	The Wars of the triumvirs
Books 134-142	Reign of Augustus
 	
 	
=== Other Fragments ===
There has also been discoveries of fragments of Livy's great work. A palimpsest of book 91 that was found in the Vatican Library in 1772. Two incomplete summaries covering books 37-40 and 48-55 have also been found in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt.
=== Links ===
The Periochae of Livy: http://www.livius.org/li-ln/livy/periochae/periochae001.html#1
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