Ab Urbe Condita (History of Rome)

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Referenced as 'Livy, the Roman historian' in connection with a counterfactual piece Tom wrote about what would have happened if Alexander had invaded Italy.

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Referenced via Walter Scheidel's discussion in The Escape from Rome: Livy proposed an ancient counterfactual about what would have happened if Alexander the Great had lived longer and invaded Italy — would the Romans have been conquered? Tom mentions this as another example of counterfactual thinking in ancient historiography.