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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... speeches and two letters in addition to about 500 fragments from his Historiae, which was published in five books. The two Epistulae ad Caesarem,. 9 The work is sometimes called De Catilinae Coniuratione or simply Catilina in modern ...
... speeches and two letters in addition to about 500 fragments from his Historiae, which was published in five books. The two Epistulae ad Caesarem,. 9 The work is sometimes called De Catilinae Coniuratione or simply Catilina in modern ...
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... speeches and letters excerpted from his genuine works, appear to be the product of the imperial schools of rhetoric. Some scholars still cling to the beliefthat these two short essays are genuine and may be useful for revealing the ...
... speeches and letters excerpted from his genuine works, appear to be the product of the imperial schools of rhetoric. Some scholars still cling to the beliefthat these two short essays are genuine and may be useful for revealing the ...
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... speech of Cato Uticensis, who played such a significant role in the senatorial debate on December 5th, had been preserved (Plut. Cato Min. 23). Although he is extremely reticent about the nature of his sources, in at least two instances ...
... speech of Cato Uticensis, who played such a significant role in the senatorial debate on December 5th, had been preserved (Plut. Cato Min. 23). Although he is extremely reticent about the nature of his sources, in at least two instances ...
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... speeches which they compose to portray the personality of the speaker and capture the mood of the times. The direct and indirect borrowings from Thucydides in S. are many, and attention is drawn to most of them in the notes. Debt to ...
... speeches which they compose to portray the personality of the speaker and capture the mood of the times. The direct and indirect borrowings from Thucydides in S. are many, and attention is drawn to most of them in the notes. Debt to ...
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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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