Rome's Italian Wars

''People have it in their minds that he would have been a match for Alexander, had Alexander turned his arms on Europe.'' So Livy characterizes Papirius Cursor, one of Rome''s famous generals in the fourth century BC. In Books 6 to 10 of his monumental history of Rome, Livy deals with the period in which Rome recovered from its Gallic disaster to impose mastery over almost the entire Italian peni...