Sallust's Bellum CatilinaeJ. T. Ramsey Oxford University Press, 27 gen 2007 - 272 pagine In his Bellum Catilinae, C. Sallustius Crispus or Sallust (86-35/34 B.C.) recounts the dramatic events of 63 B.C., when a disgruntled and impoverished nobleman, L. Sergius Catilina, turned to armed revolution after two electoral defeats. Among his followers were a group of heavily indebted young aristocrats, the Roman poor, and a military force in the north of Italy. With his trademark archaizing style, Sallust skillfully captures the drama of the times, including an early morning attempt to assassinate the consul Cicero and two emotionally charged speeches, by Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger, in a senatorial debate over the fate of the arrested conspirators. Sallust wrote while the Roman Republic was being transformed into an empire during the turbulent first century B.C. The Bellum Catilinae is well-suited for second-year or advanced Latin study and provides a fitting introduction to the richness of Latin literature, while also pointing the way to a critical investigation of late-Republican government and historiography. Ramsey's introduction and commentary bring the text to life for Latin students. This new edition (updated since the 2007 printing) includes two maps and two city plans, an updated and now annotated bibliography, a list of divergences from the 1991 Oxford Classical Text of Sallust, and revisions in the introduction and commentary. |
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Pagina 3
... apparently escaped unscathed. The reprieve was only temporary, however. In 50 B.C., two years after his tribunate, S. was expelled from the senate by the censor Appius Claudius (Dio 40.63.4). A reference to this severe setback in his ...
... apparently escaped unscathed. The reprieve was only temporary, however. In 50 B.C., two years after his tribunate, S. was expelled from the senate by the censor Appius Claudius (Dio 40.63.4). A reference to this severe setback in his ...
Pagina 4
... Apparently S. sought refuge in the camp of Caesar. He is next found in command of one of Caesar's legions in Illyricum late in 49. He was outmaneuvered by Pompey's generals and failed to relieve C. Antonius, Caesar's legate, who had ...
... Apparently S. sought refuge in the camp of Caesar. He is next found in command of one of Caesar's legions in Illyricum late in 49. He was outmaneuvered by Pompey's generals and failed to relieve C. Antonius, Caesar's legate, who had ...
Pagina 5
... Apparently, however, the word bellum belongs in the title, and by Quintilian's day the work seems to have been known as the Bellum Catilinae since he refers to the two monographs as in bello Iugurthino et Catilinae (3.8.9). Likewise ...
... Apparently, however, the word bellum belongs in the title, and by Quintilian's day the work seems to have been known as the Bellum Catilinae since he refers to the two monographs as in bello Iugurthino et Catilinae (3.8.9). Likewise ...
Pagina 6
... Apparently S.'s confidence in the value of his occupation grew as time went on. One may also detect in the preface to the Jugurtha signs that S. was repelled further from politics by the events that followed the inception of the so ...
... Apparently S.'s confidence in the value of his occupation grew as time went on. One may also detect in the preface to the Jugurtha signs that S. was repelled further from politics by the events that followed the inception of the so ...
Pagina 9
... apparently receptive to Cicero's suggestion. He even received the material that Cicero promised to supply, but the project appears to have been postponed indefinitely. Cicero was cheated of the glory that he hoped to derive from ...
... apparently receptive to Cicero's suggestion. He even received the material that Cicero promised to supply, but the project appears to have been postponed indefinitely. Cicero was cheated of the glory that he hoped to derive from ...
Sommario
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V THE TEXTUAL TRADITION | 14 |
VI SUMMARY OF THE CATILINARIAN CONSPIRACY | 15 |
VII STRUCTURE OF THE BELLUM CATILINAE | 21 |
VARIATIONS FROM THE TEXTS OF ERNOUT AND KURFESS | 24 |
TEXT | 27 |
COMMENTARY | 54 |
APPENDICES | 229 |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | 233 |
INDEX NOMINUM | 245 |
INDEX RERUM | 248 |
INDEX VERBORUM | 251 |
SIGLA | 26 |
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