... and the gradual absorption of the entire Mediterranean region into the Roman empire. It discusses what pre-Christian Greek and Roman authors — such as Plátôn (Plato), Aristotle, Isokrátês (Isocrates), Polýbios (Polybius), Sallust, Seneca, and Tacitus — had to say on the mutual relations of autonomous actors...

...This chapter takes up two topics. On one hand it examines the philosophical background of the historical genre in Rome and focuses on the “past-present” dialectic in the Prefaces of three Roman historians (Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus), examining the nature of their political theory. On the other...

... by modern standards of historical accuracy or impartiality, the great achievement of ancient historians is illustrated. Hecataeus Herodotus myth Persian Wars barbarians Thucydides Pericles civil war democracy Polybius Cato the Elder Fabius Pictor Republican period Romulus and Remus Sallust...

...This chapter turns to questions of justice and ends with a close reading of Sallust's Jugurtha (and to a lesser extent, his Catiline). Sallust organizes his history of Jugurtha's war against the Romans in the North African kingdom of Numidia around...

... is happening today, especially after September 11, and that poses a serious challenge to anyone who finds the trace of an empire in the political forms of globalization. Kant Immanuel Semerano Giovanni Tacitus x Virgil Alighieri Dante Caesar Julius Livy Titus Sallust Gaius Sallustius Crispus Momigliano...

... Sallust memorably spoke of a moral decline in which greed and unseemly ambition competed to drag Romans into ill repute. ⁴² But he did so in a very calculated fashion. Sallust had been a notoriously corrupt official in the late 50s and early 40s and, in the introduction to one of his histories...

... herself as a test case for what she identifies as the aporia represented by the female intellectual. Then the chapter turns to her translations, first of prose (Tacitus, Sallust, Cicero), examining her appropriation of the polemical voice, her reflections on good governance and merit, and her (contested...

...This chapter focuses on Gaius Sallustius Crispus, a Roman historian who was famously known as Sallust and was born in Amiternuma in 86 BC, in which he was speculated to belong to the local aristocracy. It analyzes three major works Sallust produced after his retirement from politics in 44 BC...

...This chapter provides the commentary for Sallust's Bellum Iugurthinum and Bellum Catilinae, which expresses that the prologues are virtually the same set of moral commonplaces and have detachable irrelevances. Sallust begins with proems that have nothing to do...

... (Sallust, Diodorus, Posidonius) are adduced in order to show the issues surrounding the Social War. The second theme is the dilemma between mercy and vengeance, and the difficulty for Roman authors in portraying civil war. It is argued that the ‘open’ endings of both Aeneid and Sallust's Catiline...

.... The chapter concludes that Cicero's use of history to explore rather than reinforce identity was characteristic of his times. His philosophical tendencies prompted him to exploit history's flexibility. history ironic history Sallust antiquarianism Rawson Elizabeth rhetoric Cicero exempla memoria...

... sketches of Catiline by Cicero and Sallust, and then compares the careers of Catiline and Cicero down to 59 BC. It describes the causes of the Catilinarian conspiracy. It includes a discussion (continued in Appendix 3) of two bowls inscribed with the names of Catiline and Cato that are in the possession...

...Cicero’s Catilinarians. D. H. Berry, Oxford University Press (2020). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195326468.001.0001 This chapter reviews the reception of Cicero’s Catilinarians over the two millennia from Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae...

...This passage provides a discussion of a fragment of Sallust’s Histories that sheds light on an aspect of the Roman presence in Spain and North Africa, and of the history of the Sertorian War. The discussion deals with the wider strategy of Sertorius in the war against Rome...

... Catulus Q cos 78 BC Mommsen T Plutarch Pompeius Magnus Cn cos 70 55 52 BC Pompeius Rufus Q Pompeius Strabo Cn cos 89 BC princeps senatus Roscius Sex father Roscius Sex Cicero’s client Spain triumph Tullius Cicero M cos 63 BC Sallust Cornelius Chrysogonus L Erucius C Fenestella Spoletium...

...; The Speech for Roscius of America; M. Aemilius Lepidus (cos. 78 bc); Satellites of Sulla; The Unspeakable Fufidius; Rex Leptasta; Sallust and Bestia; Rome and Arpinum; The Consular Elections, 70–66 bc...

.... Continuing the theme of exempla introduced in the previous chapter, it begins by comparing Augustine’s understanding of historical exempla with that of classical Roman historiography as represented by Livy and Sallust. Augustine rejects the narrative of decline from...

...This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to place Cicero's Verrines, Caesarian orations, Republic, and Laws; Sallust's Catiline and Jugurtha; and Horace's Satires...

...Rome has a long history of electoral corruption. To a great moralist like Sallust the problem of political corruption was a fundamental feature of Roman political life and took pride of place in his historical writing. Forms of corruption include electoral pacts between candidates, shameless...

...This chapter examines explanations of civil war in authors contemporary (or nearly so) with Rome's civil wars in the first century bc, Varro and the more familiar Cicero and Sallust being the principal informants. These authors, all themselves scarred by one or more civil wars, placed...