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    Sallust

    Roman historian and politician (86 BC - c. 35 BC)

    Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust, was a historian and politician of the Roman Republic from a plebeian family. Probably born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines, Sallust became a partisan of Julius Caesar, circa 50s BC. He is the earliest known Latin-language Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which Conspiracy of Catiline on the eponymous conspiracy, The Jugurthine War on the eponymous war, and the Histories remain extant. As a writer, Sallust was primarily influenced by the works of the 5th-century BC Greek historian Thucydides. During his political career he amassed great and ill-gotten wealth from his governorship of Africa. Wikipedia

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  2. Sallust (born c. 86 bc, Amiternum, Samnium [now San Vittorino, near L'Aquila, Italy]—died 35/34 bc) was a Roman historian and one of the great Latin literary stylists, noted for his narrative writings dealing with political personalities, corruption, and party rivalry.. Sallust's family was Sabine and probably belonged to the local aristocracy, but he was the only member known to have ...
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    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 ...
  4. en.wikipedia.org

    Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust (/ ˈ s æ l ə s t /, SAL-əst; c. 86 -35 BC), [1] was a historian and politician of the Roman Republic from a plebeian family. Probably born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines, Sallust became a partisan of Julius Caesar (100 to 44 BC), circa 50s BC. He is the earliest known Latin-language Roman historian with surviving works ...
  5. 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 ...
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    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.
  7. Sallust, a Roman historian, provides a vivid account of life in Rome during the late Republic, around 63 BCE. His works primarily focus on the moral and political decline of the Roman Republic, highlighting the corruption, greed, and ambition that characterized the era. Social Life. Sallust describes a society marked by extreme wealth disparity.
  8. oxfordbibliographies.com

    General Overviews. Syme 1964 is still a good starting point for the study of Sallust and his works, especially with the 2002 edition including an extensive introduction by Mellor. Shorter narrative treatments include Kraus and Woodman 1997 and a chapter in Mellor 1999. Büchner 1982 provides a full overview in German, but Schmal 2001 is the most thorough and best-organized German introduction.
  9. classicalstudies.org

    The prevalence of contiones in Sallust's works attests to his continued interest in the genre, and I argue that Sallust presents his history and his picture of Roman decline in terms typical of the contional speaker: only he is motivated by public interest and not factional politics, and only he can guide his readers through the deceptive ...
  10. classicalstudies.org

    This paper explores a long-neglected intertextual allusion to shed new light on one of the most striking endings in Roman literature: Sallust's portrayal of the aftermath of the Battle of Pistoria (62 BCE) in the final chapter of his Bellum Catilinae.. Nearly a century has passed since Norwegian philologist Eiliv Skard published a brief note (Skard 1925) pointing out a correspondence between ...
  11. 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 ...
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