Sallust

By: Ronald Syme, Ronald Mellor (Foreword by)

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Paperback | 5 June 2002 | Edition Number 1

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With 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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Foreword to the Paperback Edition
Sir Ronald Syme: Life and Scholarship (1903-1989)
Preface
The Problem	p. 1
Sallust's Antecedents	p. 5
The Political Scene	p. 16
Sallust's Career	p. 29
From Politics to History	p. 43
The Bellum Catilinae	p. 60
The Credulity of Sallust	p. 83
Caesar and Cato	p. 103
Sallust's Purpose	p. 121
The Bellum Jugurthinum: Warfare	p. 138
The Bellum Jugurthinum: Politics	p. 157
The Historiae	p. 178
The Time of Writing	p. 214
History and Style	p. 240
The Fame of Sallust	p. 274
The Evolution of Sallust's Style	p. 305
The False Sallust	p. 313
Bibliography	p. 355
Index of Personal Names	p. 367
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