Sallust
"With this classic book, Sir Ronald Syme became the first twentieth-century scholar to place Sallust - whom Tacitus called the most brilliant Roman historian - in his social, political, and literary context. Previous scholars treated Sallust as a mere political hack or pamphleteer, but Syme's text makes important connections between the politics of the Republic and Sallust's literary achievement, revealing 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 places Sallust in the context of Syme's other works and details the progression of Sallustian studies since and as a result of Syme's work."--Jacket
Sather classical lectures, v. 33
1 online resource (lii, 381 pages.).
9780520929104, 0520929101
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Sir Ronald Syme : life and scholarship (1903-1989) / Ronald Mellor
The problem
Sallust's antecedents
The political scene
Sallust's career
From politics to history
The Bellum Catilinae
The credulity of Sallust
Caesar and Cato
Sallust's purpose
The Bellum Jugurthinum : warfare
The Bellum Jugurthinum : politics
The historiae
The time of writing
History and style
The fame of sallust
Appendix I
The evolution of Sallust's style
Appendix II
The false Sallust
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