Books in the Commentary on Livy series

Livy's History of Rome is our main source for the study of the history of the early centuries of the Roman Republic. In Book X Livy narrates several important political and military advances, in particular the battle of Sentium in 295 BC, during the Third Samnite War. This commentary discusses all problems posed by Livy's matchless narrative.

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.

Narrates the course of the Second Samnite War, one of the important that Rome fought during its conquest of Italy. This book begins with the author's account of the Roman defeat in the Caudine Forks and ends with Roman victory over the Samnites. It discusses the problems posed by his narrative.