Sallust / edited by William W. Batstone and Andrew Feldherr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Batstone, William Wendell, editor.

Feldherr, Andrew, 1963- editor.

Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Series:

Oxford readings in classical studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rome--Historiography.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Historiography.

Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C.

Sallust.

Historiography--Rome.

Physical Description:

xii, 494 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

The Roman historian Sallust emerges from recent scholarship as one of the most innovative and original writers of the ancient world. His works describe the political and moral crises of Rome's civil wars in the first century BCE and raise questions about the possibilities for narrating the past that matter profoundly to historians today. This volume provides a substantial introduction to scholarship on Sallust, bringing together some of the best and most important studies from the last decades and setting them within the context of a rich and continuing scholarly tradition that includes influential works by Eduard Schwartz (1897) and Kurt Latte (1935). Each contribution presents a distinctive vision of the historian and together they reveal different aspects of his complexity and surprising modernity. Substantial attention is given to all three of Sallust's works: the monographs on the Catilinarian conspiracy and the war with Jugurtha, as well as the fragmentary Histories. Translations of important contributions by German and Italian scholars as well as a survey of the early modern reception of Sallust offer unprecedented access to the scope of Sallust studies. This volume will be an important resource for students of ancient history and Latin literature at all levels and also introduce a wider scholarly audience to Sallust's importance and interest.

Contents:

1 Introduction p. 1 / William W. Batstone and Andrew Feldherr

2 Sallust: Diction and Sentence Structure, Narrative Style and Composition, Personality and Times p. 24 / Kurt Latte

3 The Moral Crisis in Sallust's View p. 85 / D. C. Earl

4 A Traditional Pattern of Imitation in Sallust and his Sources p. 104 / R. Renehan

5 The Accounts of the Catilinarian Conspiracy p. 116 / Eduard Schwartz

6 Intellectual Conflict and Mimesis in Sallust's Bellum Catilinae p. 141 / William W. Batstone

7 The History of Mind and the Philosophy of History in Sallust's Bellum Catilinae p. 166 / Erik Gunderson

8 Sallust's Catiline and Cato the Censor p. 214 / D. S. Levene

9 Jugurthine Disorder p. 244 / Christina S. Kraus

10 Sallust's Jugurtha: An 'Historical Fragment' p. 272 / D. S. Levene

11 Sallust's Jugurtha: Concord, Discord, and the Digressions p. 306 / Thomas Wiedemann

12 Non sunt conposita verba mea: Reflected Narratology in Sallust's Speech of Marius p. 316 / Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser

13 On the Introduction to Sallust's Histories p. 340 / Friedrich Klingner

14 The Histories: The Crisis of the Res Publica p. 350 / Antonio La Penna

15 The Faces of Discord in Sallust's Histories p. 371 / Andrew Feldherr

16 Princeps Historiae Romanae: Sallust in Renaissance Political Thought p. 400 / Patricia J. Osmond.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

ISBN:

9780198790983

0198790988

OCLC:

1102471387

Publisher Number:

99983912979