Sallust's Bellum Catilinae

Name: Sallust's Bellum Catilinae
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ISBN: 9780195320855

ISBN-10: 0195320859

ISBN-13: 9780195320855

Edition: 2nd 2006

Authors: J. T. Ramsey

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In his Bellum Catilinae, C. Sallustius Crispus or Sallust (86-35/34 B.C.) recounts the dramatic events of the 63 B.C., when a disgruntled and impoverished nobleman, L. Sergius Catilina, turned to armed revolution after two electoral defeats. Among his followers were a group of heavily indebted young aristocrats, the Roman poor, and a military force in the north of Italy. With his trademark archaizing style, Sallust skillfully captures the drama of the times, including an early morning attempt to assassinate the consul Cicero and two emotionally charged speeches, by Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger, in a senatorial debate over the fate of the arrested conspirators. Sallust wrote while the…

Book details

List price: $36.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/27/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Maps and PlansList of Divergences from OCT Edition


Introduction



Life of Sallust


Date of Birth


Family and Boyhood


Political Career


Service under Caesar


Retirement from Public Life



The Writings of Sallust


The Genuine Works


Time of Writing



Sallust's Contribution to Roman Histiography


State of Roman Historiography before Sallust


Choice of TopicSources of the Bellum Catilinae



Sallust's Style


Influence of Thucydides


Debt of Cato


Sallustian Traits: Brevity, Vocabulary, Grammar and Syntax, Inconcinnitas



The Textual Tradition



Summary of the Catilinarian Conspiracy



Structure of the Bellum Catilinae


Variations from the Texts of Ernout and Kurfess


Siglatext


Commentary


Appendices



Catilinae's Birth Date and Early Career



Evidence for the "First Catilinarian Conspiracy"


Selected Biography



Texts and Commentaries



Books and Articles


Index Nominum


Index Rerum


Index Verborum