Livy and Polybius - Biases?

[Paralus]

Thanks for your detailed reply. I understand alot more about Polybius.

Was Livy also sponsored by any relatives of Punic War survivor's descendents?

There's very little known about Livy's family connections. He came from modern Padua and so was a "provincial". From what we know he and others (Dionysios for example) came to Rome after the civil wars had been settled and others such as Trogus would follow closer to the end of the first century BC. Current views hold that Livy's first books were published in the twenties BC and there seems no reason to suppose any patronage which would stem from the time of the second Punic war. He seems one of many writers flourishing in Rome post the upheavals of the civil wars.