Books by S. P. (Reader in Latin Oakley

This magisterial work, to be published in three volumes, is the first full-scale commentary to be written in modern times on this part of Livy's great history of Rome. This first volume conists of the introduction and commentary (not the text) on Book VI, covering the period of Rome's conquest of Italy in the fourth century BC before the Punic Wars.

A commentary on the beginnings of Rome's conquest of Italy in the 4th century BC. It covers Books VII and VIII, in which Livy describes Rome's annexation of Capua and Naples and her first fighting against the Samnites, the powerful tribe that lived in the mountains of central Italy.