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Movement / Style: Golden Age. Livy (born 59/64 bc, Patavium, Venetia [now Padua, Italy]—died ad 17, Patavium) was, with Sallust and Tacitus, one of the three great Roman historians. His history of Rome became a classic in his own lifetime and exercised a profound influence on the style and philosophy of historical writing down to the 18th ...
- Robert Maxwell Ogilvie
Patavium, as Padua was called by the Romans, was inhabited by the Veneti, and had been known as a Roman municipium since 45 BC. Padua, in common with the rest of north-east Italy, suffered severely from the invasion of the Huns under Attila (452 AD).
Livy was born in Patavium in northern Italy, now modern Padua, probably in 59 BC. [ii] At the time of his birth, his home city of Patavium was the second wealthiest on the Italian peninsula, and the largest in the province of Cisalpine Gaul (northern Italy). Cisalpine Gaul was merged in Italy proper during his lifetime and its inhabitants were ...
The construction of the Via Annia took place during the second half of the 2d c. A.D. It was a continuation of the Flaminia (Rome-Rimini) and the Popilia (Rimini-Adria) to Aquileia by way of Patavium. In 59 B.C., before the arrival of Caesar, the historian Titus Livius was born in Padova to an upper-class family which enjoyed Roman citizenship.
May 31, 2024 · Padua, Italy. Padua, city, Veneto region, northern Italy, on the River Bacchiglione, west of Venice. As the Roman town Patavium—founded, according to legend, by the Trojan hero Antenor —it was first mentioned in 302 bce, according to the Roman historian Livy, who was born there (59 bce ). The town prospered greatly and, in the 11th–13th ...
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Jul 18, 2017 · The riverbed aggradation became evident immediately after the Roman Empire's economic and demographic crisis of the 3rd century AD, and it was probably due to the loss of the land preservation ...
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See Full PDFDownload PDF. "Quite possibly, it was under the early Julio-Claudian dynasty that Patavium adopted a local era; it perhaps attributed its long history of stability and prosperity to the effective Roman intervention at the request of the Patavians in 174 BCE, which restored order in the city. Several scholars have argued that local ...
