WALSH, P.G., — Livy. His Historical Aims and Methods.

Cambridge University Press, London (...), 1961. XI,301p. Original green cloth with dust wrappers. Dust wrappers bit worn. Lower part front cover slightly bumped. 'Livy's reputation, both as writer and as historian, has languished. (...) What is to be said in Livy's favour? That he wrote with brilliant liveliness and sympathy of the emotions and sufferings of those who were caught in one or other of the great crises of Roman history, especially when he wrote - as, Walsh shows, he usually did - from inside the walls of a beleaguered city or from the ranks of the losing, not the winning, side in battle. And, as Walsh emphasizes - and let there be no doubt about it - his speeches, fictional or not, are brilliantly good and utterly convincing. (...) The first two-thirds of Walsh's book cover Livy as an historian; in the rest of the book he examines his literary skill, the relation of his prose style to that of Cicero, and his use of language. This part of the book is full of interest and full of instruction.' (J.P.V.D. BALSDON in The Classical Review (New Series), 1962, p.59-60).