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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... monographs on both Greek and Latin writers of the Roman Empire.45 After delivering the manuscript of Tacitus to the Oxford Uni- versity Press in September of 1956 , Syme turned to the prepara- tion of two lecture series for delivery in ...
... monographs on both Greek and Latin writers of the Roman Empire.45 After delivering the manuscript of Tacitus to the Oxford Uni- versity Press in September of 1956 , Syme turned to the prepara- tion of two lecture series for delivery in ...
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... monograph , The Historia Augusta : A Call of Clarity , is a determined and systematic rebuttal of Mom- igliano's review of Ammianus and the Historia Augusta , which obvi- ously had annoyed Syme ; this is one of the rare occasions in his ...
... monograph , The Historia Augusta : A Call of Clarity , is a determined and systematic rebuttal of Mom- igliano's review of Ammianus and the Historia Augusta , which obvi- ously had annoyed Syme ; this is one of the rare occasions in his ...
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... monographs . He does not see Sallust as a political writer , but primarily as a traditional Roman moralist not greatly influenced by Greek philosophical texts . ( Tiffou also doubts the authenticity of the Appendix . ) He follows Earl ...
... monographs . He does not see Sallust as a political writer , but primarily as a traditional Roman moralist not greatly influenced by Greek philosophical texts . ( Tiffou also doubts the authenticity of the Appendix . ) He follows Earl ...
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... monograph that all later scholars will use . At the same time , the Australian scholar Patrick McGushin published his English commentary on the Catilina.97 Although it cannot match Vretska's in linguistic learning or detail , McGushin ...
... monograph that all later scholars will use . At the same time , the Australian scholar Patrick McGushin published his English commentary on the Catilina.97 Although it cannot match Vretska's in linguistic learning or detail , McGushin ...
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... 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 Jugurtha , to which Syme and others interested in the politics of Sallust's ...
... 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 Jugurtha , to which Syme and others interested in the politics of Sallust's ...
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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Aemilius Amiternum ancient Antonius Appian army Asconius atque Atticus Augustus Autronius Bellum Catilinae Bellum Jugurthinum Bestia Brutus Büchner Caesar Caesar Augustus Cassius Catilina Catilinarian Cato Catulus Cicero Cirta Clodius conspiracy conspirators consul consular consulship Crassus dignitas digression Divus elected enemies Epistulae further Gellius Gelzer Greek Hermes Hist historian homines honour Invective Italy Jugurtha later Latin Lentulus Lepidus literary Livy Lucullus Manlius Marius Memmius Messalla Metellus monograph Münzer Mus.Helv narration nobiles nobilitas notion novus homo Numidia Octavianus oration partisan Penna perhaps Piso plebs Plutarch political Pollio Pompeius Magnus praetor proconsul prologue quaestor quam Quintilian Republic Rom.Rev Roman Revolution Rome Rufus Sabine Sallust Sallustian Sallustius Sallustius Crispus Scaurus scholars Sempronia Senate Sertorius Sisenna speech style Suasoriae Suetonius Sulla Sulla's Symb.Osl Syme Syme's Tacitus theme Thucydides tion tribune Triumvirs Varro Vretska words writing
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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.