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. |
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Pagina xix
... says , and his text was certainly no more biased than the inscriptions set up for public consumption . On the other hand , Syme's symbiosis with Tacitus is invaluable in his five chapters ( and eighteen appendices ) on Tacitus ' style ...
... says , and his text was certainly no more biased than the inscriptions set up for public consumption . On the other hand , Syme's symbiosis with Tacitus is invaluable in his five chapters ( and eighteen appendices ) on Tacitus ' style ...
Pagina xxxi
... says were written in increasingly dense prose over many years.73 Some are brilliant miniature biographies of the oligarchs who formed the political backdrop and administrative substructure of Augustan Rome . Syme demonstrates that ...
... says were written in increasingly dense prose over many years.73 Some are brilliant miniature biographies of the oligarchs who formed the political backdrop and administrative substructure of Augustan Rome . Syme demonstrates that ...
Pagina xlii
... says.105 Thus they and their followers , perhaps influ- enced by the postmodern climate of " constructed truth , " are less concerned with the traditional issues of accuracy and bias than with the literary and rhetorical aspects of ...
... says.105 Thus they and their followers , perhaps influ- enced by the postmodern climate of " constructed truth , " are less concerned with the traditional issues of accuracy and bias than with the literary and rhetorical aspects of ...
Pagina 2
... says in the prologues to his monographs is taken to be convincing testimony ; and the thesis has been supported by appeal to other documents . Hence large claims for Sallust , lavishly ex- pounded in the recent age ( but not conceded ...
... says in the prologues to his monographs is taken to be convincing testimony ; and the thesis has been supported by appeal to other documents . Hence large claims for Sallust , lavishly ex- pounded in the recent age ( but not conceded ...
Pagina 5
... - ferred his ambitions to the metropolis and entered the governing order could still proclaim that his town was his " germana patria . " Cicero bears witness , speaking of Arpinum and the Tullii . " There is our origin , " he says , " a 5.
... - ferred his ambitions to the metropolis and entered the governing order could still proclaim that his town was his " germana patria . " Cicero bears witness , speaking of Arpinum and the Tullii . " There is our origin , " he says , " a 5.
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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.