Sallust and the Fall of the Republic
Historiography and Intellectual Life at Rome
Published on 2. December 2021
Book
Hardback
518 pages
978-90-04-50171-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book offers a new interpretation of the Roman historian Sallust, which places him at the centre of the rich intellectual world of late Republican Rome. Drawing on the evidence of Sallust's digressions in particular, and in contrast to previous views of his work as purely moralistic or unsophisticated, it argues that Sallust uses his historiography to advance a coherent set of ideas about the political chaos he saw around him, and to participate in the broader debates which characterised his period. It also offers a new perspective on the argumentative qualities of classical historiography more widely.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Weight
986 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-50171-3 (9789004501713)
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Edwin Shaw received his PhD from University College London (2015), and is Lecturer in Roman History and Ancient Languages at the University of Bristol. His research interests are in Roman Republican history and Latin prose literature, particularly historiography.
Content
Acknowledgements
Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series
Introduction
?1?Intellectual Life between Republic and Principate
?2?"Among Intellectual Pursuits, by Far the Most Useful": History Reimagined
1 Digression and Historical Argument
?1?Approaching Digression
?2?Rhetoric and Historiography
?3?Defining Historiographical Digression
?4?Sallust's Digressions
2 Setting the Scene: Rome and Africa
?1?Rome from the Outside: The archaeologia (Bellum Catilinae 6-13)
?2?The African Digression (Bellum Jugurthinum 17-19)
3 Politics, Expediency and Thucydides' Theorem
?1?The Political Digressions: Bellum Catilinae 36.4-39.5, Bellum Jugurthinum 41-42
?2?tanta vis morbi: Thucydides Vindicated (Bellum Catilinae 36.4-39.5)
?3?mos partium et factionum: Structuring Crisis in the Bellum Jugurthinum
4 Windows on the Soul: Psychology, Philosophy and Sallust's Portraiture
?1?Warped Minds: The Character-Sketches
?2?The Ambiguity of Renown
?3?Caesar and Cato: The synkrisis
5 Imperial History in the Historiae
?1?The corpus
?2?Geography and Genre
?3?Geographical Knowledge in Sallust's Rome
?4?Historical Geography and Historical Argument
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index
Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series
Introduction
?1?Intellectual Life between Republic and Principate
?2?"Among Intellectual Pursuits, by Far the Most Useful": History Reimagined
1 Digression and Historical Argument
?1?Approaching Digression
?2?Rhetoric and Historiography
?3?Defining Historiographical Digression
?4?Sallust's Digressions
2 Setting the Scene: Rome and Africa
?1?Rome from the Outside: The archaeologia (Bellum Catilinae 6-13)
?2?The African Digression (Bellum Jugurthinum 17-19)
3 Politics, Expediency and Thucydides' Theorem
?1?The Political Digressions: Bellum Catilinae 36.4-39.5, Bellum Jugurthinum 41-42
?2?tanta vis morbi: Thucydides Vindicated (Bellum Catilinae 36.4-39.5)
?3?mos partium et factionum: Structuring Crisis in the Bellum Jugurthinum
4 Windows on the Soul: Psychology, Philosophy and Sallust's Portraiture
?1?Warped Minds: The Character-Sketches
?2?The Ambiguity of Renown
?3?Caesar and Cato: The synkrisis
5 Imperial History in the Historiae
?1?The corpus
?2?Geography and Genre
?3?Geographical Knowledge in Sallust's Rome
?4?Historical Geography and Historical Argument
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index