Titus Livius (59 BC-AD 17) began working on his History of Rome at the age of 30 and continued for over 40 years until his death. The history ran to 142 books, of which 35 survive.Betty Radice(1912-1985) read classics at Oxford, then married and, in the intervals of bringing up a family, tutored in ...

Titus Livius (59 BC-AD 17) began working on his History of Rome at the age of 30 and continued for over 40 years until his death. The history ran to 142 books, of which 35 survive.Betty Radice(1912-1985) read classics at Oxford, then married and, in the intervals of bringing up a family, tutored in classics, philosophy and English. She became joint editor of the Penguin Classics in 1964. As well as editing the translation of Livy'sThe War with Hannibalshe translated Livy'sRome and Italy, Pliny's Letters,The Letters of Abelard and Heloiseand Erasmus'sPraise of Folly, and also wrote the introduction to Horace'sComplete Odes and Epodes, all for the Penguin Classics. She also edited Edward Gibbon'sMemoirs of My Lifefor the Penguin English Library, and edited and annotated her translation of the younger Pliny's works for the Loeb Library of Classics and translated from Renaissance Latin, Greek and Italian for the Officina Bodoni of Verona. She collaborated as a translator in the Collected Works of Erasmus, and was the author of the Penguin Reference BookWho's Who in the Ancient World . Radice was an honorary fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, and a vice-president of the Classical Association.