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 xv
... less than their marriages . " Of course , Syme's intention was to examine the specific data of office and marriage in place of vague ideological assertions , economic anachronisms , or suspect legal pronouncements . But a half - century ...
... less than their marriages . " Of course , Syme's intention was to examine the specific data of office and marriage in place of vague ideological assertions , economic anachronisms , or suspect legal pronouncements . But a half - century ...
Page xvi
... less an Oxford don than a familiar figure on the international academic stage . Through his long career he supervised only a handful of doctoral candidates , though all be- came enormously distinguished : Ernst Badian , Timothy Barnes ...
... less an Oxford don than a familiar figure on the international academic stage . Through his long career he supervised only a handful of doctoral candidates , though all be- came enormously distinguished : Ernst Badian , Timothy Barnes ...
Page xxvii
... less than four months before his death.60 To this bizarre text Syme devoted three books between 1968 and 1971 , as well as a continuing stream of papers . Syme was intrigued by every aspect of the HA : its date , author- ship , style ...
... less than four months before his death.60 To this bizarre text Syme devoted three books between 1968 and 1971 , as well as a continuing stream of papers . Syme was intrigued by every aspect of the HA : its date , author- ship , style ...
Page xxix
... less carefully argued than his earlier work.68 There can be little doubt that his work has stimulated further re- search on the HA , but these books and the subsequent papers are not regarded as " definitive " as The Roman Revolution ...
... less carefully argued than his earlier work.68 There can be little doubt that his work has stimulated further re- search on the HA , but these books and the subsequent papers are not regarded as " definitive " as The Roman Revolution ...
Page xxxiv
... less summarize , the richness of this re- search , but I will try to survey several areas in Sallust studies that have been productively developed after Syme's Sather Lectures . IMPORTANT GENERAL BOOKS : 1960-1975 Before embarking on a ...
... less summarize , the richness of this re- search , but I will try to survey several areas in Sallust studies that have been productively developed after Syme's Sather Lectures . IMPORTANT GENERAL BOOKS : 1960-1975 Before embarking on a ...
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.