Catiline's War, the Jurgurthine War, Histories by Sallust

Catiline's War, the Jurgurthine War, Histories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780140449488)

Vendor: Sallust
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$17.00
$17.00
$17.00
Subtotal: $17.00
Catiline's War, the Jurgurthine War, Histories by Sallust

Catiline's War, the Jurgurthine War, Histories

$17.00
Catiline's War, the Jurgurthine War, Histories by Sallust

Catiline's War, the Jurgurthine War, Histories

$17.00
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
x
Sallust (86-c. 35 bc) is the earliest Roman historian of whom complete works survive, a senator of the Roman Republic and younger contemporary of Cicero, Pompey and Julius Caesar. His Catiline's War tells of the conspiracy in 63 bc led by L. Sergius Catilina, who plotted to assassinate numerous senators and take control of the government, but was thwarted by Cicero. Sallust's vivid account of Roman public life shows a Republic in decline, prey to moral corruption and internal strife. In The Jugurthine War he describes Rome's fight in Africa against the king of the Numidians from 111 to 105 bc, and provides a damning picture of the Roman aristocracy. Also included in this volume are the major surviving extracts from Sallust's now fragmentary Histories, depicting Rome after the death of the dictator Sulla.

Author: Sallust
ISBN-10: 0140449485
ISBN-13: 9780140449488
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Published: 02/26/2008
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 7.76h x 5.22w x 0.61d
By Sallust
By Sallust
x
Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus), (86-34 BC), was a Roman historian. His principal works are the Bellum Catilinae, on the conspiracy of Catiline and his account of the Jugurthine War, Bellum Jugurthinum.

A. J. Woodman is the Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. He has co-authored commentaries on Tacitus' Annals, and a monograph Latin Historians. Most recently he produced Tacitus Reviewed, co-edited Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace, and published an award-winning translation of Tacitus' Annals.

Recently Viewed Products