Cato the Elder, Livy, and Xenophon's Anabasis

This article argues firstly that Cato the Elder’s account of a daring plan involving the tribune Caedicius in the First Punic War is modelled on a scene in Xenophon’s Anabasis. It then argues that Livy’s account of a heroic escape in the First Samnite War orchestrated by P. Decius Mus is modelled no...

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Autor principal: Rood, T
Formato: Journal article
Publicado em: Brill Academic Publishers 2017