|Titus Livius Patavinus (Livy)| Titus Livius (fictitious
portrait) |Born||64 / 59 BC Patavium, Adriatic Veneti (modern
Padua, Italy) |Died||ca. AD 17 Patavium, Italy, Roman Empire
|Subjects||History, biography, oratory| |Literary
movement||Golden Age of Latin| Titus Livius Patavinus (59 BC –
AD 17)—known as Livy in English—was a Roman historian who wrote
a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people. Ab Urbe
Condita Libri, "Books from the Foundation of the City," covering
the period from the earliest legends of Rome well before the
traditional foundation in 753 BC through the reign of Augustus
in Livy's own time. He was on familiar terms with the Julio-
Claudian family, advising Augustus's grandnephew, the future
emperor Claudius, as a young man not long before 14 AD in a
letter to take up the writing of history. Livy and Augustus's
wife, Livia, were from the same clan in different locations,
although not related by blood. Livy was born as Titus Livius in
Patavium in northern Italy, now modern Padua. There