SallustUniversity of California Press, 28 apr 2023 - 433 pagine 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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 2002. 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 mer |
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Pagina xii
... Republic that was so favored in fascist Italy . In a Europe traumatized by the Spanish Civil War , the increasing belligerence of Hitler , the repressions of Stalin , and Mussolini's grandiose war in Africa , it took Syme little more ...
... Republic that was so favored in fascist Italy . In a Europe traumatized by the Spanish Civil War , the increasing belligerence of Hitler , the repressions of Stalin , and Mussolini's grandiose war in Africa , it took Syme little more ...
Pagina xxiii
... Republic as well as a deep sensitivity to Latin prose . That histori- cal knowledge allowed him to see what other readers of Sallust might miss.52 It is perhaps Syme's deep immersion in the waning decades of the Republic that makes his ...
... Republic as well as a deep sensitivity to Latin prose . That histori- cal knowledge allowed him to see what other readers of Sallust might miss.52 It is perhaps Syme's deep immersion in the waning decades of the Republic that makes his ...
Pagina xxxv
... Republic gives his analysis an engagement with abstract forces characteris- tic of European Marxist thought of the 1950s and 1960s . Syme's view of the late Republic in Sallust was really imported from The Roman Revolution - a work of ...
... Republic gives his analysis an engagement with abstract forces characteris- tic of European Marxist thought of the 1950s and 1960s . Syme's view of the late Republic in Sallust was really imported from The Roman Revolution - a work of ...
Pagina xxxvii
... Republic in terms of the collapsing ethical values - in Roman terms , the loss of virtus . As a novus homo from the Italian countryside , it was easy for the historian to blame the greed and corruption of the aristocracy . Earl ...
... Republic in terms of the collapsing ethical values - in Roman terms , the loss of virtus . As a novus homo from the Italian countryside , it was easy for the historian to blame the greed and corruption of the aristocracy . Earl ...
Pagina xlii
... Republic , Woodman has often said he is much less con- cerned with " what really happened " than with what the ancient historian says.105 Thus they and their followers , perhaps influ- enced by the postmodern climate of " constructed ...
... Republic , Woodman has often said he is much less con- cerned with " what really happened " than with what the ancient historian says.105 Thus they and their followers , perhaps influ- enced by the postmodern climate of " constructed ...
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THE BELLUM CATILINAE | 62 |
THE CREDULITY OF SALLUST | 85 |
CAESAR AND CATO | 105 |
THE BELLUM JUGURTHINUM POLITICS | 159 |
THE HISTORIAE | 180 |
THE TIME OF WRITING | 216 |
HISTORY AND STYLE | 242 |
THE FAME OF SALLUST | 276 |
THE EVOLUTION OF SALLUSTS STYLE | 307 |
THE FALSE SALLUST | 315 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 357 |
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Pagina 85 - Nam quis nescit, primam esse historiae legem, ne quid falsi dicere audeat ? deinde ne quid veri non audeat?
Pagina xxix - A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
Pagina 280 - Pius aut de pace C. Sallustium scriptorem seriae illius et severae orationis, in cuius historia notiones censorias fieri atque exerceri videmus, in adulterio deprehensum ab Annio Milone loris bene caesum dicit et, cum dedisset pecuniam, dimissum.
Pagina 128 - Namque uti paucis verum absolvam, post illa tempora quicumque rem publicam agitavere, honestis nominibus, alii sicuti populi iura defenderent, pars quo senatus auctoritas maxuma foret, bonum publicum simulantes, pro sua quisque potentia certabant; neque illis modestia, neque modus contentionis erat; utrique victoriam crudeliter exercebant.
Pagina 33 - Hoc significat eo die quo Clodius occisus est contionatum esse mercennarium eius tribunum plebis. Sunt autem contionati eo die, ut ex Actis apparet, C. Sallustius et Q. Pompeius, utrique et inimici Milonis et satis inquieti. Sed videtur mihi Q. Pompeium significare; nam eius seditiosior fuit contio.
Pagina 245 - De poena possum equidem dicere — id quod res habet — in luctu atque miseriis mortem aerumnarum requiem, non cruciatum esse ; earn cuneta mortalium mala dissolvere ; ultra ñeque curae ñeque gaudio locum esse.
Pagina 337 - ... postremo servitus imposita est. equidem ego sic apud animum meum statuo : cuicumque in sua civitate amplior inlustriorque locus quam aliis est, ei magnam curam esse rei publicae.