Volume I
The Dictatorship
Sulla and the problem of restoration through force.
Open VolumeThree works. Three approaches. One Republic.
The Library is not a shop window. It is the entrance to the three works that give the Livarva project its structure.
Each volume opens a different path into the same historical question: how did the Roman Republic fail?
Sulla and the problem of restoration through force.
Open VolumeVolume II follows Gaius Julius Caesar through the final crisis of the Roman Republic. Within the Livarva Library this volume appears under the title The First Breach. The published edition is available under the title Portents of Mars. The complete Livarva Library Edition can be read here.
Open VolumeVolume III examines Cato, virtue, liberty and the limits of principle through a dialogue between Lucius and Philokles. The complete Livarva Library Edition can be read here.
Open VolumeWhy these three lives? Why Sulla, Caesar and Cato rather than a conventional chronology?
Read: Why Three Lives?