Brigham Young University BYU ScholarsArchive All Theses and Dissertations 2017-12-01 Livy's Republic: Reconciling Republic and Princeps in Ab Urbe Condita Joshua Stewart MacKay Brigham Young University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd Part of the Classics Commons BYU ScholarsArchive Citation MacKay, Joshua Stewart, "Livy's Republic: Reconciling Republic and Princeps in Ab Urbe Condita" (2017). All Theses and Dissertations. 6668. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6668 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact
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[email protected]. Livy's Republic: Reconciling Republic and Princeps in Ab Urbe Condita Joshua Stewart MacKay A thesis submitted to the faculty of Brigham Young University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Roger T. Macfarlane, Chair Cecilia M. Peek Michael F. Pope Department of Comparative Arts and Letters Brigham Young University Copyright © 2017 Joshua Stewart MacKay All Rights Reserved ABSTRACT Livy's Republic: Reconciling Republic and Princeps in Ab Urbe Condita Joshua Stewart MacKay Department of Comparative Arts and Letters, BYU Master of Arts As early as Tacitus, Livian scholarship has struggled to resolve the "Livian paradox," the conflict between Livy's support of the Roman Republic and his overt approval of Augustus, who brought about the end of the Republic. This paper addresses the paradox by attempting to place Livy's writings within their proper historical and literary context.