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
... Perhaps it strengthened Syme's desire to turn the study of Augustus away from the legal and constitutional emphasis of Mommsen , which was actively pro- moted in Oxford by the then Camden Professor Hugh Last , and from the notion of a ...
... Perhaps it strengthened Syme's desire to turn the study of Augustus away from the legal and constitutional emphasis of Mommsen , which was actively pro- moted in Oxford by the then Camden Professor Hugh Last , and from the notion of a ...
Pagina xix
... Perhaps not invariably , but sometimes . The recently discovered Senatus Consultum de Cn . Pisone Patre ( SCPP ) demon- strates that Tacitus knew more about Piso's senatorial trial than was expressed in that text , and a careful study ...
... Perhaps not invariably , but sometimes . The recently discovered Senatus Consultum de Cn . Pisone Patre ( SCPP ) demon- strates that Tacitus knew more about Piso's senatorial trial than was expressed in that text , and a careful study ...
Pagina xxiii
... perhaps Syme's deep immersion in the waning decades of the Republic that makes his four chapters devoted to the earlier Bellum Catilinae more powerfully argued than the two chapters on the Bellum Jugurthinum . Syme brings a remarkable ...
... perhaps Syme's deep immersion in the waning decades of the Republic that makes his four chapters devoted to the earlier Bellum Catilinae more powerfully argued than the two chapters on the Bellum Jugurthinum . Syme brings a remarkable ...
Pagina xxv
... perhaps early Livy . The most universally praised chapter of Sallust is " History and Style " -Syme's lengthy and brilliant discussion of Sallust's lan- guage and style . He presents that style as an amalgam of the read- ing of ...
... perhaps early Livy . The most universally praised chapter of Sallust is " History and Style " -Syme's lengthy and brilliant discussion of Sallust's lan- guage and style . He presents that style as an amalgam of the read- ing of ...
Pagina xxviii
... perhaps the most appreciative reader that " rogue scholar " had had in sixteen centuries ; in his first book he even called it " a garden of delights " ! 65 A decade later , when Syme felt it was time to put the HA aside , he did so ...
... perhaps the most appreciative reader that " rogue scholar " had had in sixteen centuries ; in his first book he even called it " a garden of delights " ! 65 A decade later , when Syme felt it was time to put the HA aside , he did so ...
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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.