History was included [in rhetorical training] on the grounds that, once the material was collected, it had to be presented clearly and intelligibly to the reader; the writing should be adapted to the various effects of the narrative. Titus Livius was the master of this literary craft, and he also had the power and the art to make his own impression, if not as a critical historian, certainly as a great historical author who could sustain and diversify a major work -Introduction to Livys Rome and The Mediterranean
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