The "golden age" historian Livy is well known for his
A) rejection of Latin prose in favor of Greek poetic forms.
B) perceiving history in terms of sharp moral lessons.
C) factual accuracy and critical judgment toward his sources and Rome's past.
D) Epistles, which portrayed Rome as a degenerate society in a state of collapse.
E) history of the Trojan Wars, which was the subject of the Aeneid.
B
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