Sallust

by: Syme, R.

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Sallust
Ronald Syme
Volume 33 in the series Sather Classical Lectures

About this book
With this classic book, Sir Ronald Syme became the first historian of the twentieth century to place Sallust—whom Tacitus called the most brilliant Roman historian—in his social, political, and literary context. Scholars had considered Sallust to be a mere political hack or pamphleteer, but Syme's text makes important connections between the politics of the Republic and the literary achievement of the author to show Sallust as a historian unbiased by partisanship. In a new foreword, Ronald Mellor delivers one of the most thorough biographical essays of Sir Ronald Syme in English. He both places the book in the context of Syme's other works and details the progression of Sallustian studies since and as a result of Syme's work.

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

I. THE PROBLEM

II. SALLUST'S ANTECEDENTS

III. THE POLITICAL SCENE

IV. SALLUST'S CAREER

V. FROM POLITICS TO HISTORY

VI. THE BELLUM CATILINAE

VII. THE CREDULITY OF SALLUST

VIII. CAESAR AND CATO

IX. SALLUST'S PURPOSE

X. THE BELLUM JUGURTHINUM: WARFARE

XI. THE BELLUM JUGURTHINUM: POLITICS

XII. THE HISTORIAE

XIII. THE TIME OF WRITING

XIV. HISTORY AND STYLE

XV. THE FAME OF SALLUST

APPENDIX I. THE EVOLUTION OF SALLUST'S STYLE

APPENDIX II. THE FALSE SALLUST

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES

Sallust

by: Syme, R.

• ISBN-13: 9780520023741 / 978-0-520-02374-1
• ISBN-03: 0520023749 / 0-520-02374-9
• University of California Press, Berkeley, 1964

Price: 36,98 EURO

1 copy in stock