Relire Tite-Live, 2000 ans après. Actes du colloque tenu à l’Université Paris Nanterre et à l’École Normale Supérieure de Paris

After the excavations in Rome and its surroundings rehabilitated Livy’s work, new studies flourished, following recent historiographical approaches and in the stylistical, narratological and philological fields.

Nevertheless, his historical method, his attitude to religion, his relations with the new Augustean power and perspective on Roman political life, his choices of composition and publication, and the conditions of his reception are still matter for controversy, and, contrary to the first decade, the third, the fourth or the Periochae are not a much explored territory. In addition, the way the Ab Vrbe condita was (re)read along the centuries keeps on influencing our understanding of Roman history and society.

These are the questions dealt with by these proceedings of a conference that took place in Paris in October 2017, whose contributions are assembled in four main themes: Livy’s ‘rewriting’ of Roman history; his political philosophy; his literary and ideological choices; the posterities of his work.