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The Roman historian Sallust emerges from recent scholarship as one of the most innovative writers of the ancient world: this volume brings together the most important and influential studies of his work to offer unprecedented access to the scope of Sallust studies for scholars and students of ancient history and Latin literature.
List of contents
- Frontmatter
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- 1: William W. Batstone and Andrew Feldherr: Introduction
- 2: Kurt Latte: Sallust: Diction and Sentence Structure, Narrative Style and Composition, Personality and Times
- 3: D. C. Earl: The Moral Crisis in Sallust's View
- 4: R. Renehan: A Traditional Pattern of Imitation in Sallust and his Sources
- 5: Eduard Schwartz: The Accounts of the Catilinarian Conspiracy
- 6: William W. Batstone: Intellectual Conflict and Mimesis in Sallust's Bellum Catilinae
- 7: Erik Gunderson: The History of Mind and the Philosophy of History in Sallust's Bellum Catilinae
- 8: D. S. Levene: Sallust's Catiline and Cato the Censor
- 9: Christina S. Kraus: Jugurthine Disorder
- 10: D. S. Levene: Sallust's Jugurtha: An 'Historical Fragment'
- 11: Thomas Wiedemann: Sallust's Jugurtha: Concord, Discord, and the Digressions
- 12: Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser: Non sunt composita verba mea: Reflected Narratology in Sallust's Speech of Marius
- 13: Friedrich Klingner: On the Introduction to Sallust's Histories
- 14: Antonio La Penna: The Histories: The Crisis of the Res Publica
- 15: Andrew Feldherr: The Faces of Discord in Sallust's Histories
- 16: Patricia J. Osmond: Princeps Historiae Romanae: Sallust in Renaissance Political Thought
- Endmatter
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Index
About the author
William W. Batstone, Ph.D. Berkeley, works on literature and theory with a focus on the Latin literature of the Republic and triumviral period. He has published on both authors (Plautus, Cicero, Catullus, Caesar, Vergil, and Sulpicia) and theory (lyric, pastoral, Bakhtin, didactic, postmodernism, reception, and reader response), and is currently working on a web-based text and commentary on Cicero's Catilinarian Orations for Dickinson College Commentaries and a monograph on Sallust's Bellum Catilinae.
Andrew Feldherr received his Ph. D. from Berkeley and has taught at Princeton University since 1997. His research interests focus on Roman historiography and Augustan poetry and he is the author of books on Livy and Ovid as well as articles on Catullus, Horace, Vergil, Sallust, Cicero, and Tacitus. His current project is a monograph on Sallust entitled After the Past: Sallust on History and Writing History.
Summary
The Roman historian Sallust emerges from recent scholarship as one of the most innovative writers of the ancient world: this volume brings together the most important and influential studies of his work to offer unprecedented access to the scope of Sallust studies for scholars and students of ancient history and Latin literature.
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This book is packed with detailed analysis. It is a valuable resource for students of ancient history and Latin literature. Anyone with an interest in the classics who is reading Sallust will find this a helpful companion.
