SallustWith this classic book, Sir Ronald Syme became the first historian of the twentieth century to place Sallust—whom Tacitus called the most brilliant Roman historian—in his social, political, and literary context. Scholars had considered Sallust to be a mere political hack or pamphleteer, but Syme's text makes important connections between the politics of the Republic and the literary achievement of the author to show Sallust as 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 both places the book in the context of Syme's other works and details the progression of Sallustian studies since and as a result of Syme's work. |
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Page xxxv
... Sallustian political bias . On the importance of La Penna's attack on Schwartz , cf. E. Badian's review of La Penna in American Journal of Philology 92 ( 1971 ) : 103-7 . 86 La Penna ( 1968 ) 136 n . 227 : " il Syme stesso avvia ...
... Sallustian political bias . On the importance of La Penna's attack on Schwartz , cf. E. Badian's review of La Penna in American Journal of Philology 92 ( 1971 ) : 103-7 . 86 La Penna ( 1968 ) 136 n . 227 : " il Syme stesso avvia ...
Page xxxvi
... Sallustian whose books ap- peared in explicit dialogue with Syme was Karl Büchner . Büchner , a Latinist with distinguished books on Lucretius , Cicero , Horace , Vergil , and Roman literary history , was less secure with historical and ...
... Sallustian whose books ap- peared in explicit dialogue with Syme was Karl Büchner . Büchner , a Latinist with distinguished books on Lucretius , Cicero , Horace , Vergil , and Roman literary history , was less secure with historical and ...
Page xxxvii
... Sallustian program to justify Caesar . Earl's is a realistic appraisal of Sallust not as a philosopher but as a conventional Roman moralist prepared to shade or even distort the truth to strengthen his argument . Although Earl's ideas ...
... Sallustian program to justify Caesar . Earl's is a realistic appraisal of Sallust not as a philosopher but as a conventional Roman moralist prepared to shade or even distort the truth to strengthen his argument . Although Earl's ideas ...
Page xxxviii
... Sallustian studies in recent decades . The last thirty years have also brought important literary and historical commentaries on Sallust's major works . Because Syme's Sallust has appeared in Italian , German , and French translations ...
... Sallustian studies in recent decades . The last thirty years have also brought important literary and historical commentaries on Sallust's major works . Because Syme's Sallust has appeared in Italian , German , and French translations ...
Page xlii
... Sallustian research has focused on the rhetor- ical construction of the monographs and the examination of Sal- lust's literary strategies in line with new advances in narratology and literary theory . This is especially true of the ...
... Sallustian research has focused on the rhetor- ical construction of the monographs and the examination of Sal- lust's literary strategies in line with new advances in narratology and literary theory . This is especially true of the ...
Contents
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THE BELLUM CATILINAE | 62 |
THE CREDULITY OF SALLUST | 85 |
CAESAR AND CATO | 105 |
THE BELLUM JUGURTHINUM POLITICS | 159 |
THE HISTORIAE | 180 |
THE TIME OF WRITING | 216 |
HISTORY AND STYLE | 242 |
THE FAME OF SALLUST | 276 |
THE EVOLUTION OF SALLUSTS STYLE | 307 |
THE FALSE SALLUST | 315 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 357 |
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Page 85 - Nam quis nescit, primam esse historiae legem, ne quid falsi dicere audeat ? deinde ne quid veri non audeat?
Page xxix - A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
Page 280 - Pius aut de pace C. Sallustium scriptorem seriae illius et severae orationis, in cuius historia notiones censorias fieri atque exerceri videmus, in adulterio deprehensum ab Annio Milone loris bene caesum dicit et, cum dedisset pecuniam, dimissum.
Page 128 - Namque uti paucis verum absolvam, post illa tempora quicumque rem publicam agitavere, honestis nominibus, alii sicuti populi iura defenderent, pars quo senatus auctoritas maxuma foret, bonum publicum simulantes, pro sua quisque potentia certabant; neque illis modestia, neque modus contentionis erat; utrique victoriam crudeliter exercebant.
Page 33 - Hoc significat eo die quo Clodius occisus est contionatum esse mercennarium eius tribunum plebis. Sunt autem contionati eo die, ut ex Actis apparet, C. Sallustius et Q. Pompeius, utrique et inimici Milonis et satis inquieti. Sed videtur mihi Q. Pompeium significare; nam eius seditiosior fuit contio.
Page 245 - De poena possum equidem dicere — id quod res habet — in luctu atque miseriis mortem aerumnarum requiem, non cruciatum esse ; earn cuneta mortalium mala dissolvere ; ultra ñeque curae ñeque gaudio locum esse.
Page 337 - ... postremo servitus imposita est. equidem ego sic apud animum meum statuo : cuicumque in sua civitate amplior inlustriorque locus quam aliis est, ei magnam curam esse rei publicae.