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The 45 pages that link to Livy, each with the reason it gives.

• PolybiusRelated: Livy’s narrative overlaps with events preserved more fully by Polybius.

• Diodorus SiculusCompared with: Livy offers a Roman counterpart to Diodorus’s Greek universal history.

• Roman historiographyBroader topic: His surviving narrative is the fullest literary account of Rome’s legendary and early republican past.

• TacitusCompared with: Livy’s expansive narrative and republican past provide a contrast to Tacitus’s imperial focus.

• Battle of CannaeRelated: His account is a major ancient narrative source for the battle and its aftermath.

• Niccolò MachiavelliRelated: Machiavelli’s Discourses closely examines Livy’s account of republican Rome.

• Punic WarsRelated: His account helped shape later Roman and popular memory of the conflict.

• Battle of ZamaRelated: His narrative preserves a later Roman version of the battle and its aftermath.

• Roman KingdomRelated: His later narrative is a major source for stories about the kings.

• Dionysius of HalicarnassusCompared with: Livy’s Roman-centered narrative offers a major comparison with Dionysius’s Greek account of Rome.

• SyracuseRelated: His account helped transmit Roman narratives of Syracuse’s siege and capture.

• Antiochus IV EpiphanesRelated: His account includes the Roman intervention that curtailed Antiochus IV's Egyptian campaign.

• Battle of PydnaRelated: His account preserves a major narrative of the battle and its aftermath.

• Roman mythologyRelated: His account preserves influential versions of Rome’s foundation legends.

• Battle of MagnesiaRelated: His account preserves a detailed narrative of the Roman campaign and battle.

• Roman dictatorshipRelated: His narrative preserves many foundational stories about early dictators and their appointments.

• Roman foundation mythRelated: His account is a major surviving literary version of the foundation story.

• Livius AndronicusRelated: Livy records Andronicus’s association with Rome’s first known dramatic performance.

• Battle of Lake TrasimeneRelated: His version preserves Roman traditions about Flaminius and the disaster at the lake.

• Roman literatureBroader topic: His expansive account made Rome’s legendary and Republican past a literary narrative.

• Romulus and RemusNarrower topic: His account preserves a major literary version of the twins’ origin story.

• Roman patronageRelated: His narratives preserve later Roman accounts of the institution’s early history.

• Hannibal's Crossing of the AlpsRelated: His account is a major surviving narrative of the crossing, though written centuries later.

• Ab Urbe ConditaRelated: His account is titled Ab Urbe Condita, though that title does not mean he consistently dated events AUC.

• AeneasRelated: Livy preserves a historical tradition in which Aeneas arrives in Latium and becomes an ancestor of Rome.

• MachiavellianismRelated: Machiavelli drew on Livy to examine how conflict and civic institutions sustain republics.

• Mos maiorumRelated: His stories of early Rome present ancestral conduct as a source of civic examples.

• Twelve TablesRelated: Livy is a major later source for the tables’ creation story.

• Battle of the MetaurusRelated: His narrative preserves a detailed Roman account of Metaurus and its aftermath.

• Numa PompiliusRelated: His account is a major surviving source for the traditional story of Numa’s reign.

• Lucius Junius BrutusRelated: His account is a major surviving narrative of Brutus’s legend.

• LusitaniansRelated: His lost books are partly recoverable through summaries that mention Roman campaigns in Lusitania.

• Battle of the AlliaRelated: His account is the fullest surviving narrative of the battle and its aftermath.

• Lucius Tarquinius SuperbusRelated: His narrative is a major surviving source for Superbus’s reign and expulsion.

• LucretiaRelated: His account gives the best-known narrative of Lucretia’s assault, suicide, and the revolt.

• Appius Claudius CaecusRelated: Livy’s account is a major surviving narrative of Caecus’s censorship and public works.

• Battle of TicinusRelated: His account is a major surviving narrative source for the battle.

• Fourth Macedonian WarRelated: His lost narrative is one source behind later accounts of the conflict.

• Hiero II of SyracuseRelated: His account preserves Roman-era traditions about Hiero’s alliance and conduct.

• Quintus Fabius PictorRelated: Livy drew on earlier Roman traditions that may have included Fabius Pictor’s history.

• Lucius Cincius AlimentusRelated: Livy names Alimentus among earlier authorities for Rome’s early history.

• Lucius Quinctius CincinnatusRelated: Livy’s account is the principal surviving narrative source for Cincinnatus’s dictatorship and renunciation.

• North African elephantRelated: His narratives preserve later Roman descriptions of Hannibal’s elephants and their campaigns.

• Overthrow of the Roman monarchyRelated: His influential account preserves the fullest surviving narrative of the monarchy’s fall.

• Titus LarciusRelated: Livy preserves a major narrative source for Larcius and early Roman institutions.