The Report on the Gladiatorial Combats of 174 BC

• Autores: Francis X. Ryan
• Localización: Exemplaria classica: journal of classical philology, ISSN-e 1699-3225, Nº. 14, 2010, págs. 21-41
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The four extant Livian passages reporting on gladiatorial combats are discussed; the focus lies upon textual problems in the fourth passage, but in briefer compass a solution to a textual problem in the first is proposed and the reliability of the number transmitted in the third is defended. There is also a short preliminary discussion of the sources available and of the sources actually used in the transmission of this information.