I've discovered your channel recently and because of you I'm exploring a new interest in classical plays lol. Big fan of the Roman artistic GOATs so now I'm about to watch this vid with an intense gaze thx for your work making this stuff 🤝
Excellent summary as always, Erica. I'm looking forward to the rest of the Livy videos. You impress me with your sheer knowledge of the topics each time.
I'm new to your channel, Erica. This video was very interesting. I had heard of Livy before but didn't know much. Now, I've learned a bit more. Thank you.
I found your videos by accident. Love your take on classical history. Could you do a video on Josephus. Yes, he was Jewish but wrote for mainly 1st century Roman world.
Great video , I’ve got his early history of Rome book but will definitely be looking for his other stuff ✊👌 have u or do u plan to do any videos on Cicero ??
Iam primum omnium satis constat Troia capta...... Love the Loeb in the thumbnail! Close to finishing Book II in Volume I. Volume II just arrived from Amazon, looking forward to it. Part of what I enjoy about Livy's style is that he wasn't afraid to present multiple versions of a story, and readily admits more than once that neither he nor his contemporaries knew for sure what the truth was: e.g., his admission that whether it was the Horatii or the Curiatii who were the Romans in the fight between brothers was unknown. Knowing that most of Livy's work is only available in exceedingly short form via the Periochae makes me want to get on my knees and cry.
New subscriber to your channel as I have an interest in ancient historians(Xenophon, polybius, Sally’s, Plutarch and Livy). I have a cocktail and my penguin classic copy of Rome and the Mediterranean world by my side and I’m ready to learn!
@@MoAnInc no, thank you. I’m just a regular guy who loves the Ancient Greek and Roman world. I discovered your channel about 2 weeks ago. Slowly but surely I’m watching all your videos. I’m already a big fan of yours.
Awesome! 👏 I just received my Livy histories (books 1-25) and am ready to read. As I get better at latin, I'll read Livy in the original as well. I am looking forward to your next video on this series.
Don't know what books you're learning from, but if you're not using it already I highly recommend Roma Aeterna which is part II in the Familia Romana series. Many of the chapters cover sections of Ab Urbe Condita and give you a feel for Livy's style as well as a great foundation for his vocabulary. Roma Aeterna is lightly adapted and gets the reader closer and closer to the authentic text as you progress. Some other authors featured in the book include Vergil, the first 4-5 chapters are adapted Aeneid with numerous direct quotes, as well as Sallust, Cicero, Ovid, Gellius, and Eutropius..
@@anthonyzepeda4992 I read Familia Romana probably five or six times. Never read any of the supplements. LOVED Ad Alpes, that was my follow-up to Familia Romana. Let me know what you think of those supplements :)
As usual, Eric this was excellent!! My copies of Livy are somewhere on the self and I am going to dig them out this afternoon. BTW will you please tell me about the Greek/Roman lady statue in the corner by your Livy book. I know the sunglasses and the crown are yours but who is the lady? I have a perfect place for one here in my home library and I really like yours.
@@MoAnIncI was wondering the me thing! 😂 I saw similar busts and little statues at TJ MAXX/homegoods! I will most likely be buying some in the near future
For Gibbons work, lol, of course they did. They never had the word processor nor typewriter though, they also had a greater understanding (well, more modern at least) of what a volume was and why it should contain more than than 1 page. I must presume that you imagine your scribe being presented with a telephone directory and told to copy volume 1, whereas in reality it would have been the local Chinese menu and done in a day! Scriptoriums were packed with scribes constantly copying stuff all day. It was considered a safe, stable job! Lol, ever watched PLEBS?!
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““The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind” - Livy
I love Livy! When I learned Latin, Livy was my primary text! Great content! 👏🏼👏🏼 Thank you for your hard work!
I've discovered your channel recently and because of you I'm exploring a new interest in classical plays lol. Big fan of the Roman artistic GOATs so now I'm about to watch this vid with an intense gaze thx for your work making this stuff 🤝
Thank you, Erica. ❤❤
Thanks for tuning in!
Excellent summary as always, Erica. I'm looking forward to the rest of the Livy videos. You impress me with your sheer knowledge of the topics each time.
Thank you ✨✨✨
So pumped for this series! I think Livy was like Mary Beard in terms of prose level, accessible pop historians.
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Fascinating. I hope one day to be able to read his work.
Thanks Erica! When you were talking about his individualism at the end, I had the "I'm Just Ken" song pop in my head. "I'm Just Livy!"
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Keep up the great work, Erica 👍
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I'm new to your channel, Erica. This video was very interesting. I had heard of Livy before but didn't know much. Now, I've learned a bit more. Thank you.
Thanks for joining this nerdy corner of the internet! 🤓
What a beautiful review! Thank you
Thank you for watching!
Nice! Thank you, will keep this in mind as I just started reading his histories
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I found your videos by accident. Love your take on classical history. Could you do a video on Josephus. Yes, he was Jewish but wrote for mainly 1st century Roman world.
Thanks for tuning in 🤓 I can certainly add Josephus to the list :)
@@MoAnInc thank you 😊
Great video , I’ve got his early history of Rome book but will definitely be looking for his other stuff ✊👌 have u or do u plan to do any videos on Cicero ??
Iam primum omnium satis constat Troia capta...... Love the Loeb in the thumbnail! Close to finishing Book II in Volume I. Volume II just arrived from Amazon, looking forward to it. Part of what I enjoy about Livy's style is that he wasn't afraid to present multiple versions of a story, and readily admits more than once that neither he nor his contemporaries knew for sure what the truth was: e.g., his admission that whether it was the Horatii or the Curiatii who were the Romans in the fight between brothers was unknown. Knowing that most of Livy's work is only available in exceedingly short form via the Periochae makes me want to get on my knees and cry.
New subscriber to your channel as I have an interest in ancient historians(Xenophon, polybius, Sally’s, Plutarch and Livy). I have a cocktail and my penguin classic copy of Rome and the Mediterranean world by my side and I’m ready to learn!
🥹😭 welcome aboard!! 🤓🫶🏼
Loved this video, it’s a great summary. And I like the comic relief, lol. I want to know all things Livy!
Thank you!
@@MoAnInc no, thank you. I’m just a regular guy who loves the Ancient Greek and Roman world. I discovered your channel about 2 weeks ago. Slowly but surely I’m watching all your videos. I’m already a big fan of yours.
Awesome! 👏 I just received my Livy histories (books 1-25) and am ready to read. As I get better at latin, I'll read Livy in the original as well. I am looking forward to your next video on this series.
Don't know what books you're learning from, but if you're not using it already I highly recommend Roma Aeterna which is part II in the Familia Romana series. Many of the chapters cover sections of Ab Urbe Condita and give you a feel for Livy's style as well as a great foundation for his vocabulary. Roma Aeterna is lightly adapted and gets the reader closer and closer to the authentic text as you progress. Some other authors featured in the book include Vergil, the first 4-5 chapters are adapted Aeneid with numerous direct quotes, as well as Sallust, Cicero, Ovid, Gellius, and Eutropius..
@@jddrew00Familia Romana. I've 2 more chapters and then over to the Orberg supplements of the classics.
@@anthonyzepeda4992 I read Familia Romana probably five or six times. Never read any of the supplements. LOVED Ad Alpes, that was my follow-up to Familia Romana. Let me know what you think of those supplements :)
As usual, Eric this was excellent!! My copies of Livy are somewhere on the self and I am going to dig them out this afternoon. BTW will you please tell me about the Greek/Roman lady statue in the corner by your Livy book. I know the sunglasses and the crown are yours but who is the lady? I have a perfect place for one here in my home library and I really like yours.
Thank you so much!!
Also the bust is just from Zara Home hahaha 😂 Ya gal is on a BUDGET 😆
@@MoAnIncI was wondering the me thing! 😂 I saw similar busts and little statues at TJ MAXX/homegoods! I will most likely be buying some in the near future
Time 🕐 to update INSTAntaneous GRAMmar!!! 24k it will be today!!!! 🎉 😊
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@@MoAnInc 25k this weekend.... Or by Monday. 😆
Books 📚💖
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I keep hoping they'll find a few volumes in Herculaneum.
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So Hermione Grangerish ... lovely
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I started with Tacitus, oops.
Imagine being a scribe and being handed all those volumes to copy
Honestly trauma inducing 😂
Lol! These works are not volumes in the modern sense. The majority by today's standards would be classified as pamphlets!
Lol, Gibbons "volumes" covered twice the timeframe and there were only half a dozen...
@@mabonbran8913 They had the printing press by then
For Gibbons work, lol, of course they did. They never had the word processor nor typewriter though, they also had a greater understanding (well, more modern at least) of what a volume was and why it should contain more than than 1 page. I must presume that you imagine your scribe being presented with a telephone directory and told to copy volume 1, whereas in reality it would have been the local Chinese menu and done in a day! Scriptoriums were packed with scribes constantly copying stuff all day. It was considered a safe, stable job! Lol, ever watched PLEBS?!
WTF is on the statues eyes, some kind of ancient VR set? Does he uses drugs?
Use*
@@MoAnInc yo dawg, he has many uses