After the past : Sallust on history and writing history / Andrew Feldherr, Princeton University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feldherr, Andrew, 1963- author.

Series:

Blackwell Bristol lectures on Greece, Rome and the classical tradition

Blackwell-bristol lectures on Greece, Rome and the classical tradition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Sallust.

History.

Historiography.

Rome--History--Conspiracy of Catiline, 65-62 B.C--Historiography.

Rome.

Jugurthine War, 111-105 B.C--Historiography.

Jugurthine War, 111-105 B.C.

Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C--Historiography.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 318 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Sallust on history and writing history

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021.

Summary:

Gaius Sallustius Crispus ('Sallust', 86-35 BCE) is the earliest Roman historian from whom any works survive. His two extant writings focus on crucial moments of a political, social, and ethical revolution with profound consequences for his own life and those of his readers: Catiline's famous rebellion in 63 BCE, and the war waged against the North African king Jugurtha fifty years earlier. This hook examines what it meant to write the history of these contentious events while their effects were still so vividly felt. --

One of the first book-length treatments in English of the author in over fifty years, After the Past: Sallust on History and Writing History offers a comprehensive reading of Sallust's works using the tools of narratology and intertextual analysis to reveal the changing functions of historiography at the end of the Roman Republic. Andrew Feldherr explores many of the most interesting and significant aspects of the historian's accomplishment, including his interrogation of the relationship between history and rhetoric, his representation of space, his interest in the emotions, and his consciousness of his work as a written artifact. These investigations form the basis of a unified and distinctive analysis of how Sallust confronted the challenge of writing his society's history of discord and violence. --Book Jacket.

Contents:

Lives and Times

Words and Deeds

Pity and Envy: The Emotions in Sallustian Historiography

Tragic Jugurtha: Numidia, New Media, New Medeas

Lines in the Sand: The Representation of Space in the Jugurtha

Brevitatis Artifex: Sallust as Text.

Notes:

"Wiley Blackwell."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Feldherr, Andrew, 1963- After the past

ISBN:

9781119076704

1119076706

OCLC:

1198218178