Böcker i Commentary on Livy-serien

This magisterial work, to be published in three volumes, is the first full-scale commentary to be written in modern times on this part of Livy's great history of Rome. This first volume conists of the introduction and commentary (not the text) on Book VI, covering the period of Rome's conquest of Italy in the fourth century BC before the Punic Wars.

Narrates the course of the Second Samnite War, one of the important that Rome fought during its conquest of Italy. This book begins with the author's account of the Roman defeat in the Caudine Forks and ends with Roman victory over the Samnites. It discusses the problems posed by his narrative.