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.
Radice was an honorary fellow of St Hilda\'s College, Oxford, and a vice-president of the Classical Association..
She collaborated as a translator in the Collected Works of Erasmus, and was the author of the Penguin Reference Book Who\'s Who in the Ancient World .
She also edited Edward Gibbon\'s Memoirs of My Life for 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.
As well as editing the translation of Livy\'s The War with Hannibal she translated Livy\'s Rome and Italy , Pliny\'s Letters, The Letters of Abelard and Heloise and Erasmus\'s Praise of Folly , and also wrote the introduction to Horace\'s Complete Odes and Epodes , all for the Penguin Classics.
She became joint editor of the Penguin Classics in 1964.
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.
The History ran to 142 books, of which 35 survive.
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
