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    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 ...
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    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 ...
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    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 ...
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    One of the chief attributes of Sallust's historiographical style, across his corpus, is his emphasis on moral turning points in Rome's history. This paper reconsiders our understanding of these turning points in Sallust, and argues that they serve as a literary and narratological device for conveying his particular interpretation of Roman ...
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    This paper examines the position of classical texts, especially Sallust's Bellum Iugurthinum, in colonial and postcolonial accounts of French Algeria. It illustrates how Roman ideas about North African nomadism were appropriated by French colonizers to facilitate the conquest of Algeria, and later complicated by Maghrebian writers who ...
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    But in January 2021, I was reading Sallust—and an apt choice it was, too. Not because of what Sallust writes — Catiline's attempt to overthrow the government or Marius' attempt to change Roman institutions — but because Read more … Blog: A Day in the Life of a Classicist and Museum Director. September 13, 2018
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    The Roman vir is always strong on the battlefield, strong in the forum, and strong in the bedchamber. This is the image that is passed down to us by the writers of the Late Republican and Early Augustan periods, such as Vergil, Cicero, and Sallust. ... Cicero, and Sallust. This paper argues that this view was not a universal representation of ...
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    Women's Petitions in Later Roman Egypt: Survey and Case Studies: 10: 4: Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Early Byzantine Egypt ... Sallust, Kristeva and Intertextual Prosaics: 30: 2: Historiography, Poetry, and the Intertext (Seminar—Advance Registration Required) ... Teaching Classical Reception Studies: Stephen Harrison:
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    While other Roman aristocrats were permitted to set up monuments to their own victories without incurring severe criticism, Cicero's own self-aggrandizement was largely the subject of ridicule by the elites. Ps. Sallust's invective against Cicero reveals that the self-praise wore thin on many (5-6).

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