Titus Livius (59 BC – AD 17) was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people. “Chapters from the Foundation of the City,” covers the period from the earliest legends of Rome through the reign of Augustus in Livy’s own time. He was on familiar terms with the Julio-Claudian family, advising Augustus’s grandnephew, the future emperor Claudius, as a young man not long before 14 BCE in a letter to take up the writing of history.
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