1. This book offers a new interpretation of the Roman historian Sallust, which places him at the centre of the rich intellectual world of late Republican Rome. ... (2015), and is Lecturer in Roman History and Ancient Languages at the University of Bristol. His research interests are in Roman Republican history and Latin prose literature ...
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    Writing in the late 40s BCE, the Roman historian Sallust (c. 86-35 BCE) describes a prominent nobleman's efforts to overthrow the nearly 450-year-old Roman Republic and install himself as dictator. Osgood's engaging English version enlists Sallust's treatise in the struggle to preserve and strengthen the laws, institutions, and norms of ...
  4. academic.oup.com

    Abstract. This chapter presents the perspective on late Republican socioeconomic life of the major Roman historian of the era, Sallust. Sallust makes proportionally far more mentions of greed and debt than any other Roman author, showing that the effects of socioeconomic conduct were important in his view of how the political culture he was analyzing worked.
  5. worldhistory.org

    Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86-35 BCE), better known as Sallust, was a Roman statesman and historian. He turned away from an unsuccessful career in both politics and the Roman army, choosing instead on a writing career and produced three major works: Bellum Catilinae (Catiline's War), Bellum Jugurthinum (Jugurthine War), and Histories.Unfortunately, his works would almost be forgotten under ...
  6. academic.oup.com

    Abstract. Chapter 2 argues that through his historical works, Sallust emerges both as the advocate of an understanding of virtus that expanded the sense he had inherited of what it meant to be a good Roman and as the promoter of the idea of the contestability of virtus in the ideological struggles of the late republic. It also gives an assessment of Sallust's profound influence on the moral ...
  7. classicalstudies.org

    Not because of what Sallust writes — Catiline's attempt to overthrow the government or Marius' attempt to change Roman institutions — but because of what he passes over. He was there at the swelling of the atmosphere that led to the burning of the Senate house on January 19 th (what is it about Januaries?), 52 bce, during the funeral of ...
  8. cambridge.org

    Product filter button Description Contents Resources Courses About the Authors Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought develops readings of Rome's three most important Latin historians - Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus - in light of contemporary discussions of republicanism and rhetoric.
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    In Chapter 3 S. turns to the influence of Thucydides on Sallust's political digressions, which deal with the state of Roman society at the time of Catiline (Bellum Catilinae 36.4-39.5) and of Jugurtha (Bellum Jugurthinum 41-2). Rather than focusing on the deeds of the great men who magnified Rome, Sallust frames contemporary politics in ...
  10. degruyter.com

    Apr 28, 2023With 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 ...
  11. research-information.bris.ac.uk

    T1 - Sallust and the fall of the Republic: historiography and intellectual life at Rome. AU - Shaw, Edwin H. PY - 2021/11. Y1 - 2021/11. N2 - This book offers a new interpretation of the Roman historian Sallust, which places him at the centre of the rich intellectual world of late Republican Rome.
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